Mature
Mature verb - To become mature.
Usage example: a young figure skater whose talent is still maturing
Return
Return verb - To go back to a previous and usually lower state or level.
Usage example: vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Early Word of God had it that Hello Sadness was to be a slight return to their early poppy sound, but instead it shifted the band into a less noisy and more mature sound.
Source: Music / Los Campesinos! - Fic-writers tend to be fond of the "character leaves town for years, only to return much later to the neighborhood and reintroduce their newly mature selves to their old friends".
- Its Real Is Brown aesthetic was also praised for being a return to the "mature" Zelda style fans had been clamoring for, especially since Wind Waker and Minish Cap had raised fears that the series was falling into the Animation Age Ghetto.
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