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maturating

maturating is the present participle and gerund 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 maturating

What is maturating the present participle and gerund of?
Maturating is the present participle and gerund of maturate.

Words near maturating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maturating (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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