MATURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maturate mean? 

• MATURATE (verb)
  The verb MATURATE has 3 senses:

1. develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

2. grow old or older

3. ripen and generate pus

  Familiarity information: MATURATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATURATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they maturate    ... he / she / it maturates   
Past simple: maturated   
Past participle: maturated   
-ing form: maturating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

grow; maturate; mature

Context example:

The child grew fast

Hypernyms (to "maturate" is one way to...):

develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)

"Maturate" entails doing...:

age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce (grow old or older)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "maturate"):

ripen (grow ripe)

find; find oneself (accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation)

grow up (become an adult)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue maturate

Derivation:

maturation (coming to full development; becoming mature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grow old or older

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce

Context example:

Young men senesce

Hypernyms (to "maturate" is one way to...):

develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "maturate"):

turn (become officially one year older)

fossilise; fossilize (become mentally inflexible)

dote (be foolish or senile due to old age)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

maturation ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ripen and generate pus

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fester; maturate; suppurate

Context example:

her wounds are festering

Hypernyms (to "maturate" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Verb group:

mature; suppurate (cause to ripen and discharge pus)

Sentence frame:

Somebody's (body part) ----s

Derivation:

maturation ((medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus)