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maturated

maturated is the simple past and past participle of maturate.

Meaning of maturate

Verb

maturate (third-person singular simple present maturates, present participle maturating, simple past and past participle maturated)

  1. (transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
    • A tree may be maturated artificially.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  2. (transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
  3. (intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration.

Questions about maturated

What is maturated the simple past and past participle of?
Maturated is the simple past and past participle of maturate.

Words near maturated in the dictionary

  1. maturants
  2. maturas
  3. maturase
  4. maturases
  5. maturate
  6. maturated
  7. maturates
  8. maturating
  9. maturation
  10. maturational
  11. maturationally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maturated (page history and authors); maturate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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