matures

Verb

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

1. (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
   • […] his originality, in the mean time, was maturing to perfection.1797, Mr. Harrison, “A Biographical Sketch of Hogarth”, in The Comick Magazine, volume 1, London: Harrison and Co., page 3

   Synonyms:

   develop, grow, progress, ripen

2. (intransitive, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
   • […] Trees […] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;1670, John Evelyn, chapter 35, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees, London, page 246

   Synonyms:

   ripen, ripen up

3. (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
   • […] But these thoughts
     Full Counsel must mature:1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 1, lines 659–660
4. (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
   • […] a ship well freighted with the stores
     The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: J. Johnson, page 202

   Synonyms:

   ripen

5. (intransitive) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.

   Synonyms:

   age, develop, grow up

6. (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
   • Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies,
     Till time matures them for important follies.1776, Hannah Cowley, The Runaway, London: Prologue

   Synonyms:

   age, antiquate, eld, obsolete

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