maturing
- 1Present participle and gerund of mature.
The whiskey is maturing in charred oak casks at the back of the warehouse.
Maturing into a confident speaker took her several years of practice.
Note
One form, two directions: the verb behind it can describe something ripening on its own or something being brought to ripeness. In the cheese is maturing, the process simply happens. In the cellar is maturing the cheese, or practice maturing her judgment, an agent does the work. The same spelling also serves as a verbal noun (maturing takes patience), standing as subject or object like any gerund.
The cellar has been maturing the cheese for eighteen months.
Years of hard decisions were maturing his judgment faster than any book could.
maturing 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 → maturing: drop the e, add -ing
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