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pre·ma·ture

(prē′mə-tyo͝or′, -to͝or′, -cho͝or′)

adj.

1. Occurring, growing, or existing before the customary, correct, or assigned time; uncommonly or unexpectedly early: a premature end.

2. Born after a gestation period of less than the normal time: a premature infant.

[Middle English, ripe, from Latin praemātūrus, ripe too early : prae-, pre- + mātūrus, ripe; see mā- in Indo-European roots.]

pre′ma·ture′ly adv.

pre′ma·ture′ness, pre′ma·tu′ri·ty n.

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Adv.	1.	prematurely - (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; "the child was born prematurely"
	2.	prematurely - too soon; in a premature manner; "I spoke prematurely" untimely

prematurely

adverb

1. too early, too soon, before your time, preterm Danny was born prematurely.

2. overhastily, rashly, too soon, precipitately, too hastily, half-cocked, at half-cock He may have spoken just a little prematurely.

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Translations

قَبْل الأوان

předčasně

for tidligt

frühzeitig

prématurément

túlságosan korán

fyrir tímann, of snemma

prema-

predčasne

vaktinden önce

提前地早产地过早地

prematurely

[ˈpremətʃʊəlɪ] ADV → prematuramente, antes de tiempo
to be born prematurely → nacer prematuramente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

prematurely

[ˈprɛmətʃə^rli] adv

[age, die, end] → prématurément; [grey, bald] → prématurément
to be born prematurely → naître prématurément

[celebrate] → prématurément

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prematurely

adv bald → vorzeitig; aged, middle-aged, menopausal → frühzeitig, vorzeitig; decide → verfrüht; act → voreilig; he was born prematurely → er war eine Frühgeburt; to die prematurely → früh sterben

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

prematurely

[ˈprɛməˌtjʊəlɪ] adv → prematuramente, prima del tempo

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premature

(preməˈtʃuə) , ((American) pri:-) adjective

happening etc before the right or expected time. a premature birth; The baby was three weeks premature.

ˌpremaˈturely adverb

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Having impulsively, it is probable, and perhaps somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private purpose of the Pequod's voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command.

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It was not a beautiful face; it was too prematurely aged-looking, too thin and drawn, to be that; but it was a gentle, lovable face, in spite of its stamp of pinch and poverty, and upon it was that look of restful peace that comes to the faces of the sick sometimes when at last the pain has left them.

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Vronsky was in fact beginning, prematurely, to get a little bald.

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But the face was in the main one face, and every head was prematurely white.

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Then Athos took from his pocket a small paper, on which two lines were written, accompanied by a signature and a seal, and presented them to him who had made too prematurely these signs of repugnance.

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"I am sure you would be the last woman to marry again prematurely, if our dear Rector were taken away."

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"I was drunk," said Royce; and this simplicity in the prematurely battered man somehow had the pathos of the first sin of a baby.

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It was, perhaps, rather early in the morning to get up a concert, and the audience prematurely aroused from their slumbers, might not possibly pay their entertainer with coin bearing the Mikado's features.

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It is scarcely necessary to dwell on the scenes which occurred between the time I first sprang from the earth and that in which I was "pulled." The latter was a melancholy day for me, however, arriving prematurely as regarded my vegetable state, since it was early determined that I was to be spun into threads of unusual fineness.

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Tangle prematurely. "In reference," proceeds the Chancellor with extra distinctness, "to the young girl and boy, the two young people"--Mr.

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He was a fat little man, with short legs, young still -- he could not have been more than thirty -- but prematurely bald.