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  • verb To commence or progress through adolescence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb become adolescent; pass through adolescence

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Examples

  • I was lucky to adolesce in the late 1960s, helped by a television show called, "The Newlywed Game."

    American Movies, Arranged Marriages James F. McGrath 2010

  • At least part of a child's training must include the information and inspiration he needs to adolesce well.

    Movie Review: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising 2007

  • In fiction, adolescents who never successfully adolesce become annoying.

    Movie Review: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising 2007

  • In real life, adolescents who never successfully adolesce become single twenty-somethings who mooch off their parents and spend all their money on fancy electronics.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • In real life, adolescents who never successfully adolesce become single twenty-somethings who mooch off their parents and spend all their money on fancy electronics.

    Movie Review: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising 2007

  • In fiction, adolescents who never successfully adolesce become annoying.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Many modern tales of adolescence are bad precisely because none of the characters actually adolesce -- that is, become adults.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • At least part of a child's training must include the information and inspiration he needs to adolesce well.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Many modern tales of adolescence are bad precisely because none of the characters actually adolesce -- that is, become adults.

    Movie Review: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising 2007

  • Doug Clinton: Edward Tufte would have a field ... tk: where's the genitals? pre-adolesce ...

    TheNextWeb.com 2009

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