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Maturate

Definitions: Maturate

Maturate

Verb

1. Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast".

2. Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Maturate

Synonyms: age (v), get on (v), grow (v), mature (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Maturate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Perfection

Bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete &,c.; put in trim; (prepare); maturate.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Maturate

English words defined with "maturate": Maturated, Maturating. (references)
Etymologies containing "maturate": Maturant. (references)

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Modern Translations: Maturate

Language Translations for "maturate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zë qelb, nxjerr qelb. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

узрявам (bake, grow ripe, mature, mellow, ripen), гноясвам, набирам (compose, dial, gather, muster, muster up, pucker, quill, raise, set, set up, shirr). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ωριμάζω (grow up, mature, mellow, ripen, season), εμπυάζω (fester, suppurate), εμπυούμαι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"בשיל (ripen). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megérlel (to mature, to mellow, to ripen). (various references)

   

Italian

  

maturare (accrue, become mature, fall due, grow up, mature, mellow, reach gradually, ripe, ripen, to mature, to ripen), suppurare (fester, matter, suppurate), portare a maturazione. (various references)

   

Manx

  

appaghey (maturation, maturing, ripen, ripening). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aturatemay

   

Portuguese

  

colchão (bed, mattress), amadurecer (age, brew, mature, mellow, ripen, season, to mature, to ripen). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

supura (discharge, fester, matter, suppurate), se coace (come in, cook, mature, parch, ripen), puroia (fester, matter, suppurate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

развиваться (be in progress, develop, evolve, evolved, progresses, thrive, thriven, throve). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sazreti (grow ripe, mature, mellow, ripen), gnojiti se (fester, rankle, suppurate), dospeti za naplatu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

madurar (mature, mellow, ripen, season, silk, to mature, to ripen). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mogna (mature, mellow, ripen, season, to mature, to ripen). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

olgunlaşmak (cut one's wisdom teeth, flower, head, mature, mellow, ripen, season, set), iltihap toplamak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розвиватися (advance, evolve, progress, unwind), нагноїтися, дозрівати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Maturate

Derivations

Words beginning with "maturate": maturated, maturates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Maturate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gautrait, maaturbate, madurate, masturcate, Mattinata, maturbate, maturcate, Matusalem, Maurette, micturate, Motuhake, naturata. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Maturate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-m-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: amateur, tuatera.

-2 letters: aurate, matter, mature, mutate, mutter, ramate, tauter, trauma.

-3 letters: armet, attar, aurae, mater, matte, muter, ramet, reata, tamer, tatar, tater, tetra, treat, urate, utter.

-4 letters: area, arum, atma, aura, maar, mare, mart, mate, matt, maut, meat, meta, mura, mure, mute, mutt, rate, ream, tame, tare, tart, tate, taut, team, tear, teat.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-m-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: maturated, maturates.

 

+2 letters: masturbate, metatarsus, traumatise, traumatize.

 

+3 letters: masturbated, masturbates, matriculate, portmanteau, thaumaturge, traumatised, traumatises, traumatized, traumatizes.

 

+4 letters: atheromatous, magistrature, matriculated, matriculates, multilateral, multivariate, portmanteaus, portmanteaux, thaumaturges, transmutable, ultramontane.

 

+5 letters: antirheumatic, argumentation, argumentative, magistratures, misarticulate, permutational, quartermaster, tetradynamous, thaumaturgies, transmutative, ultramontanes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Maturate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 74 75 72 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    -    ..-    .-.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0074 0075 0072 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4767868784678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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