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mûr in English:

1. mature mature


mature cheese
Describe how claims and exposures mature to the point where payments can be made against them
After mature reflection, I've decided to accept their offer.
We should become unique, mature individuals.
The Pirate Party could mature into a political driving force.
He's on the playground, surrounded by 12-year-olds twice a day, five times a week! How do you expect him to be mature?
We’re mature enough to disagree on this issue but still respect each other.
IMmature; someone who is immature behaves or thinks in a way that is typical of someone much younger - used to show disapproval = childish
In a few short years, she matured into a strikingly attractive young woman.
A mature person is defined by the way he/she handles life's challenge.
John matured so much during the past 5 years. Now he is a responsible accountant and a husband.
I'm not sure that he is really mature enough to make the right decision. He seems very young for his age.
The fact that you're an adult doesn't mean that you are mature.
Craig is so mature for a teenage boy. He acts as if he is in his twenties.
Is it mature to run away from problems?

English word "mûr"(mature) occurs in sets:

300 most important French adjectives 126 - 150
Common adjectives - Adjectifs courants
Characteristics - Caractéristiques

2. grown grown


How you've grown!
The girl had grown up without any money and when she married she became a spendthrift.
I feel like he's grown cold toward me lately.
Women have grown tired of being looked down on by employers.
Open-air markets sell food grown on local farms.
People who still read children's books when they should have grown out of them are normally mentally handicapped.
Automobile transmissions have grown in sophistication over the years.
She's grown out of her favorite dress, so her mother will have to make it over for her.
When I regained my senses, it seemed that fur had grown on my fingers and knees. When it became slightly brighter, I looked at my reflection in a mountain stream, and I realized that I had become a tiger.
Haven't seen you for a while, and you've grown taller!
One feels that the city has grown slowly and each age has left its mark.
It has fertile soil where corn be grown.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
The elder brother was living in a village and had grown neither rich nor poor.
It is the border-line cases that are always in danger: the dignified buildings of the past which may possess no real artistic or historic value, but which people have become sentimentally attached to and have grown to love.

English word "mûr"(grown) occurs in sets:

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