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Maturate

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Verb group 4

Mature 84% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Mature 84% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Suppurate 84% connected

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

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Suppurate 84% connected

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

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Broader term 6

Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Manner of action 5

Dote 76% connected

A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Fossilize 76% connected

To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

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Ripen 76% connected

To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Derivationally related 6

Maturation 74% connected

The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

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Maturation 74% connected

The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

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Senescent 74% connected

Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

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Senescent 74% connected

Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

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Suppuration 74% connected

The act or process of suppurating.

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Suppuration 74% connected

The act or process of suppurating.

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Entails 2

Age 72% connected

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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Mature 72% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Synonym 5

Age 92% connected

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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Fester 92% connected

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.

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Grow 92% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mature 92% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suppurate 92% connected

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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