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From teen + aged.

• IPA(key): /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒd/

teenaged (not comparable)

1. Aged between thirteen and nineteen inclusive; teenage.
   a teenaged girl
   • 1999 August 26, Buddy Seigal, “Even Old Englishmen Still Get Wood”, in OC Weekly, retrieved 16 June 2009:
     Dexter's vocals are competent enough: his timbre is thin and eternally teenaged, but he can go apeshit on the hiccupy histrionics like no one's business.
   • 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67:
     In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.

• The more common term is teenage.
• teen, teenage
• denegate

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