MATURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does matured mean? 

• MATURED (adjective)
  The adjective MATURED has 2 senses:

1. fully ripe; at the height of bloom

2. fully considered and perfected

  Familiarity information: MATURED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fully ripe; at the height of bloom

Synonyms:

full-blown; matured

Context example:

a full-blown rose

Similar:

mature (having reached full natural growth or development)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fully considered and perfected

Synonyms:

mature; matured

Context example:

mature plans

Similar:

developed (being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful)

 Context examples 

I suppose it must have come in the night, and matured without my knowing it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

DC-OVA vaccine is produced in vitro by pulsing autologous dendritic cells with killed autologous primary ovarian tumors as a source of tumor-associated antigens (TAAs); the pulsed DCs are then matured using various cytokines.

(DC-OVA Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

I did not shut out of my consideration the time when I should leave her free, and still young and still beautiful, but with her judgement more matured—no, gentlemen—upon my truth!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A humanized, affinity-matured IgG1k antibody directed against denatured collagens (I-IV) with potential antiangiogenic and antineoplastic activities.

(Anti-Denatured Collagen Monoclonal Antibody TRC093, NCI Thesaurus)

With intensive care, the child survived numerous bouts of severe illness, and her health improved as her immune system matured and formed protective antibodies against various infectious agents.

(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)

A white blood cell that is derived from a lymphocyte stem cell matured in the thymus and characterized by a CD8 marker on the surface and an antigen-specific T cell receptor which recognizes antigens in the context of MHC class I.

(Activated Mature Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

One of a group of aggressive (fast-growing) non-Hodgkin lymphomas that begin in mature T lymphocytes (T cells that have matured in the thymus gland and gone to other lymphatic sites in the body, including lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen.) Also called mature T-cell lymphoma.

(peripheral T-cell lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

Human cells lose this flexibility once they have matured, which is why, for example, heart cells don’t spontaneously decide to become lung cells. iPSCs are cells taken from an adult that have been manipulated, or induced, into a stem-cell state.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

A white blood cell that is derived from a lymphocyte stem cell matured in the thymus and characterized by a CD8 marker on the surface and an antigen-specific Epstein Barr virus T cell receptor.

(EBV-Specific Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)