| VERB | change | maturate, mature, grow | develop and reach maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | maturate, senesce, age, get on, mature | grow old or older | |
| body | maturate, fester, suppurate | ripen and generate pus |
| Meaning | Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Model | Sam and Sue maturate | |
| Synonyms | mature, grow | |
| Entails | senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate | Grow old or older |
| Narrower | find oneself, find | Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation |
| grow up | Become an adult | |
| ripen | Grow ripe | |
| Broader | develop | Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment |
| Spanish | crecer, cultivar, hacerse, madurar | |
| Catalan | créixer, cultivar, fer-se, madurar | |
| Nouns | maturation | coming to full development |
| Meaning | Grow old or older. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | senesce, age, get on, mature | |
| Caused by | age | make older |
| Entailed by | mature, maturate, grow | Develop and reach maturity |
| Narrower | dote | Be foolish or senile due to old age |
| fossilize, fossilise | Become mentally inflexible | |
| turn | Become officially one year older | |
| Broader | develop | Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment |
| Spanish | envejecer, madurar | |
| Catalan | envellir, madurar | |
| Nouns | maturation | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically |
| Meaning | ripen and generate pus. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody's (body part) ----s | |
| Synonyms | fester, suppurate | |
| Broader | exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release | Eliminate (a substance) |
| Similar to | suppurate, mature | Cause to ripen and discharge pus |
| Spanish | enconarse, infectar, supurar, ulcerarse | |
| Catalan | supurar | |
| Nouns | maturation | (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus |
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