mature

1. (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).Examples: "[…] his originality, in the mean time, was maturing to perfection."Synonyms: develop, grow, progress, ripenintransitive

2. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.Examples: "[…] Trees […] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;"Synonyms: ripen, ripen upintransitive

3. (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.Examples: "[…] But these thoughts Full Counsel must mature:"; "[…] much it now Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time Matures our enterprize;"; "[…] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days […]"transitive

4. (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.Examples: "[…] a ship well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,"; "There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed."Synonyms: ripentransitive

5. (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.Synonyms: age, develop, grow upintransitive

6. (transitive) To make (someone) mature.Examples: "Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies, Till time matures them for important follies."; "[…] what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me;"Synonyms: age, antiquate, eld, mature, obsoletetransitive