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maturate verb [ ˈmatjʊreɪt ]

• (of a boil, abscess, etc.) form pus.
• "if you got a wound in that country it never healed but festered white and maturated"
Origin: mid 16th century: from Latin maturat- ‘ripened, hastened’, from the verb maturare, from maturus (see mature).


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