Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adolesce

1 sense of adolesce

Sense 1
adolesce -- (become adolescent; pass through adolescence; "The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12")
       => develop -- (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time")