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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of adolesce.

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Examples

  • That thing grew up on evil, adolesced slowly roasting alive the local equivalent of kittens, and amused itself through maturity on new and ingenious torture.”

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

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