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Mature   /mətʃˈʊr/  /mətjˈʊr/   Listen
Mature

adjective
(compar. maturer; superl. maturest)
1.
Characteristic of maturity.
2.
Fully considered and perfected.  Synonym: matured.
3.
Having reached full natural growth or development.
4.
Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.  Synonym: ripe.  "Full-bodied mature wines"
5.
(of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination.  Synonym: fledged.
verb
(past & past part. matured; pres. part. maturing)
1.
Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation.  Synonyms: grow, maturate.  "The child grew fast"
2.
Develop and work out fully in one's mind.
3.
Become due for repayment.
4.
Cause to ripen or develop fully.  Synonym: ripen.  "Age matures a good wine"
5.
Grow old or older.  Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce.  "We age every day--what a depressing thought!" , "Young men senesce"
6.
Cause to ripen and discharge pus.  Synonym: suppurate.



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"Mature" Quotes from Famous Books



... to The Rat it was more. Though The Rat knew none of the things he knew, he saw that the whole story seemed to him a real thing. The struggles of Samavia, as he had heard and read of them in the newspapers, had taken possession of him. His passion for soldiering and warfare and his curiously mature brain had led him into following every detail he could lay hold of. He had listened to all he had heard with remarkable results. He remembered things older people forgot after they had mentioned them. He forgot nothing. He had drawn on the flagstones a map of Samavia which Marco saw was actually ...
— The Lost Prince • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... attuned to sadness—the personality of Mayrhofer exercised a special charm, and the two at once became fast friends. The attraction, however, was perfectly mutual, for Schubert's friendship helped to mature Mayrhofer's powers, with the result that the one wrote in order that the other might set to music that which was written, and to this alliance we are indebted for some of ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham
... leisure to give the subject a careful examination, its great importance is obvious and unquestionable. The large amount of valuable statistical information which is collated and presented in the memorial will greatly facilitate the mature consideration of the subject, which I respectfully ask for it ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Lincoln - Section 1 (of 2) of Volume 6: Abraham Lincoln • Compiled by James D. Richardson
... had been no revelation. As the heaped fires illuminated the clearing, five mature Hillmen stalked past the white men's hut and into the forest. Terry identified them to the Major as the sub-chiefs who ruled ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... Maryland, and the two Carolinas; but of the nine only Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York actually sent them. As the powers granted the commissioners presupposed a deputation from each of the States, those present, after mature deliberation, deemed it inadvisable to proceed, drawing up instead an urgent address to the States to take "speedy measures" for another, fuller, convention to meet on the second Monday of May, 1787, for the same purposes as had occasioned this one. Such was the mode in which the memorable ...
— History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews


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