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"The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12"verbbecome adolescent; pass through adolescencetype of:
Definition that contains adolesce
- childhood the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
- crush temporary love of an adolescent
- rumble a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
- adolescent relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
- mead United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)
- fuzz the first beard of an adolescent boy
- infatuation temporary love of an adolescent
- preteen a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)
- puerility the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
- bobbysoxer an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)