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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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  1. a. To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
  2. a. To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
  3. v. i. To ripen; to become mature; specif/cally, to suppurate.
  4. v. develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
  5. v. grow old or older
  6. v. ripen and generate pus
  7. 1. To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. A tree may be maturated artificially. Fuller. 2. To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess). To ripen; to become mature; specif
  8. To ripen; to become mature; specif
  9. v develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation v grow old or older v ripen and generate pus