verb
- Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation.
- usage: "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast"
- Develop and work out fully in one's mind.
- usage: "I need to mature my thoughts"
- synonyms: mature
- Become due for repayment.
- usage: "These bonds mature in 2005"
- synonyms: mature
- Cause to ripen or develop fully.
- usage: "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"
- Grow old or older.
- usage: "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day-what a depressing thought"; "Young men senesce"
- Cause to ripen and discharge pus.
- usage: "The oil suppurates the pustules"
adjective
- Fully ripe; at the height of bloom.
- usage: "a full-blown rose"
- synonyms: full-blown
- Fully considered and perfected.
- usage: "mature plans"
- synonyms: mature
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