Definition: cause to ripen and discharge pus
Usage: The oil suppurates the pustules
Synonyms: maturate, mature, get on, senesce, age
Definition: grow old or older
Usage: She aged gracefully; we age every day--what a depressing thought!; Young men senesce
Similar words: develop
Definition: grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
Usage: A flower developed on the branch; The country developed into a mighty superpower; The embryo develops into a fetus; This situation has developed over a long time
Definition: cause to ripen or develop fully
Usage: The sun ripens the fruit; Age matures a good wine
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: maturate, mature, grow
Definition: develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
Usage: He matured fast; The child grew fast
Similar words: develop
Definition: grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
Usage: A flower developed on the branch; The country developed into a mighty superpower; The embryo develops into a fetus; This situation has developed over a long time
Synonyms: mature
Definition: become due for repayment
Usage: These bonds mature in 2005
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Synonyms: mature
Definition: develop and work out fully in one's mind
Usage: I need to mature my thoughts
Similar words: develop, formulate, explicate
Definition: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
Usage: Could you develop the ideas in your thesis
Definition: fully considered and perfected
Usage: mature plans
Similar words: developed
Definition: being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful
Usage: the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook; they have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each
Definition: (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
Similar words: fledgeling, fledgling
Definition: (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers
Usage: a fledgling robin
Similar words: full-fledged, fully fledged
Definition: (of a bird) having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly
Synonyms: mature
Definition: having reached full natural growth or development
Usage: a mature cell
Similar words: grown, grownup, full-grown, fully grown, big, adult
Definition: (of animals) fully developed
Usage: an adult animal; a grown woman
Similar words: abloom, efflorescent
Definition: bursting into flower
Usage: flowering spring trees
Similar words: fruiting
Definition: capable of bearing fruit
Similar words: full-blown, matured
Definition: fully ripe; at the height of bloom
Usage: a full-blown rose
Similar words: headed
Definition: of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
Usage: headed cabbages
Similar words: marriageable, nubile
Definition: of girls or women who are eligible to marry
Similar words: overblown
Definition: past the stage of full bloom
Usage: overblown roses
Similar words: prime, meridian
Definition: being at the best stage of development
Usage: our manhood's prime vigor- Robert Browning
Synonyms: mature
Definition: characteristic of maturity
Usage: mature for her age
Similar words: autumnal
Definition: characteristic of late maturity verging on decline
Usage: a serene autumnal mood
Similar words: mellow, mellowed
Definition: having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
Usage: mellow wisdom; the peace of mellow age
Similar words: ripe
Definition: at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
Usage: a ripe mind
Definition: fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
Usage: ripe peaches; full-bodied mature wines
Definition: of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)
Usage: mature well-aged cheeses
Similar words: mellow, mellowed
Definition: having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
Usage: a mellow port; mellowed fruit
Similar words: overripe
Definition: too ripe and beginning to turn soft