Definitions for matures

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matures ma·ture

Spelling: [muh-too r, -tyoo r

IPA: /məˈtʊər, -ˈtyʊər, -ˈtʃʊər, -ˈtʃɜr/

Matures is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in matures (aemrstu).

Definitions for matures

adjective

1. complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms:
2. ripe, as fruit, or fully aged, as cheese or wine.
3. fully developed in body or mind, as a person:
4. noting or pertaining to an adult who is middle-aged or older (used euphemistically):
5. pertaining to or characteristic of full development:
6. completed, perfected, or elaborated in full by the mind:
7. (of an industry, technology, market, etc.) no longer developing or expanding; having little or no potential for further growth or expansion; exhausted or saturated.
8. intended for or restricted to adults, especially by reason of explicit sexual content or the inclusion of violence or obscene language:
9. composed of adults, considered as being less susceptible than minors to explicit sexual content, violence, or obscene language, as of a film or stage performance:
10. Finance. having reached the limit of its time; having become payable or due:
11. Medicine/Medical. having attained definitive form or function, as by maturation of an epithelium from a basal layer. having attained the end stage of a normal or abnormal biological process:
12. Geology. (of a landscape) exhibiting the stage of maximum topographical diversity, as in the cycle of erosion of a land surface.

verb (used with object)

1. to make mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
2. to bring to full development:
3. to complete or perfect:

verb (used without object)

1. to become mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
2. to come to full development:
3. Finance. to become due, as a note.

Origin of matures

1400-50; late Middle English Latin mātūrus ripe, timely, early; akin to manes, matutinal

Examples for matures

You will find a site that matures close to 200,000 casks of whisky.

It is certain that no eel ever matures or spawns in fresh water.

I don't know what that's going to turn into when he matures.

In New England it matures in July and is found on bushes all summer.

His family had to flee, and he goes on a geographic as well as an inward journey as the young Qais matures fast.

It matures in the northern states about the first of August.

By May, its bulb can grow as big as two centimeters, and turns pink and then a deep red as it matures.

In Massachusetts and Connecticut it matures about the first of September.

It is rather that as he matures, he sees new relationships in the old.

But McClellan, as his supporters say, matures his strategical plans.