matures
- 1Third-person singular simple present of mature.
The wine matures for years in oak barrels before it is bottled.
Each tadpole matures into a frog over the course of several weeks.
Note
One spelling carries both directions of the verb. With nothing after it, the subject does the developing: the wine matures, a plan matures. With an object, something else is brought to ripeness: a cool cellar matures cheese, hardship matures a child. The ending is the plain -s used after he, she or it; the base form mature serves every other present-tense subject, so the wines mature but the wine matures.
A cool, damp cellar matures the cheese slowly.
Responsibility often matures a young person faster than age does.
matures is a form of mature
mature, verb: To become mature or full-grown, physically or psychologically, gaining experience and wisdom with age. Full entry
- Spelling
- mature → matures: add -s
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