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Word: Maturate
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
mid 16th century: from Latin maturat- ‘ripened, hastened’, from the verb maturare, from maturus (see mature)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈmatʃʊreɪt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(of a boil, abscess, etc.) form pus
Short Definition:(of boil, abscess, etc.) form pus
Examples:- if you got a wound in that country it never healed but festered white and maturated
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