How to pronounce “mature”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
• Brought to a state of complete readiness.
• Profound; careful.
• (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
• (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
• (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
• (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
• (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
• (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
• (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
• (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

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