mature
adjective
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms.
matured
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past participleof mature.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof mature.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
matureadjectivecomplete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms.
Example Sentences
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When her indexed annuity matured in 2023, Athene offered her a two-year extension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
But the singer said he wanted “Dosis” to be different — he wanted it to show not only that he, as a person, has matured, but also that his sound has evolved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
You’re supposed to have matured into the kind of person who wants the broccoli.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
It’s distilled and matured in the Canadian province of Manitoba, but then shipped in large containers to bottling facilities in the U.S. for distribution to American customers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
