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adolescing

adolescing is the present participle and gerund of adolesce.

Meaning of adolesce

Verb

adolesce (third-person singular simple present adolesces, present participle adolescing, simple past and past participle adolesced)

  1. (intransitive) to become adolescent; to pass through adolescence.
    • The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12.

Questions about adolescing

What is adolescing the present participle and gerund of?
Adolescing is the present participle and gerund of adolesce.

Words near adolescing in the dictionary

  1. adolescency
  2. adolescent
  3. adolescently
  4. adolescents
  5. adolesces
  6. adolescing
  7. Adolf
  8. Adolfo
  9. Adolfs
  10. Adolfson
  11. Adolfsson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adolescing (page history and authors); adolesce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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