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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
premature
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a premature baby (=born before the normal time)
▪ Lesley’s baby was three weeks premature.
a premature birth (=when a baby is born before the normal time)
▪ Many babies survive premature births.
a premature halt (=one that is sooner than expected)
▪ Bad weather brought the game to a premature halt.
a premature infant (=born too early)
▪ The hospital provides life-saving care to premature infants.
premature deathtechnical (= earlier than people usually die)
▪ The disease is a significant cause of premature death in the developing world.
premature retirement (=before the natural or proper time)
▪ Injury forced him into premature retirement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
▪ Tommy's Campaign supports research into helping premature babies.
▪ They ignore the minor expense of health care for pregnant women, but pay the massive expenses of premature babies.
▪ Conductors visit premature baby units and decide which children to accept.
▪ It's hard work but she copes Voice over Saving premature babies has its costs.
▪ They are being kept in incubators, normally used for premature babies.
▪ This result might indicate that the body clock is slow to mature in premature babies.
▪ Pat is working as a midwife in an intensive care unit for premature babies.
▪ Worse still, one third of premature babies due or suffer some form of handicap throughout life.
birth
▪ Low birth weight usually indicates premature births that are also often immature births.
▪ They also noticed numerous miscarriages, premature births, and birth defects-including gross malformations-among soldiers' children.
▪ The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year.
▪ And there was no doubt that Kalchu, though younger, had dealt with a great many premature births before this one.
▪ They suffered the heartbreak of losing three children through premature births.
▪ Immature births are often, but not necessarily, premature births.
death
▪ Introduction Smoking remains the commonest cause of premature death and ill health in the United Kingdom.
▪ The report found that moderate exercise reduces the risk of premature death and promotes psychological well-being by reducing depression and anxiety.
Deaths before the age of 65, so-called premature deaths, are comparatively rare.
▪ My father, Simon C.. DeVos, suffered several heart attacks before his premature death at the age of fifty-nine.
▪ The reason for a lot of these premature deaths was that their owners did not sufficiently understand the importance of cash flow.
▪ If you count the savings to pension funds from premature deaths, tobacco is nothing short of a windfall for the states.
▪ For the whole community this marks the return of infections and, for many, a premature death.
▪ Of those 1 million premature deaths, 500, 000&038;.
ejaculation
▪ Even Rick's problem with premature ejaculation got guffaws.
▪ But she can not really fail like a man who is impotent or suffers from premature ejaculation.
▪ In the first half it was a case of premature ejaculation.
end
▪ The career that looked so promising in 1974 has evidently come to a premature end.
▪ Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end.
▪ With the premature end of apprenticeship came abolitionist anticipation of a new era of orderly progress in liberty.
▪ It looked on Saturday as if they had declared a premature end to the season, in any case.
infant
▪ We believe that a multicentre trial with clearly defined outcome measures is necessary to recruit an adequate number of premature infants.
▪ Naturally, this is much more difficult for the parents of a premature infant.
▪ In newborns, especially premature infants, this liver enzyme system is not fully developed or functional.
▪ When premature infants who are unresponsive are taken out of the incubator, she usually takes over their care.
▪ An understanding of how small premature infants develop compared with babies born at term can also help this relationship.
▪ Parents have an easier time adapting to premature infants who are more responsive.
▪ In one study, the half-life of caffeine in premature infants ranged from 41 to 231 hours.
▪ All these observations suggest that we should be careful about recommending increased stimulation at home for the premature infant.
mortality
▪ This term relates to the effect upon natural lifespan of a decrease in premature mortality.
▪ As premature mortality decreases, he argues, more people will live to the limits of this natural lifespan.
retirement
▪ It lasted until 1879, when ill health compelled his premature retirement.
▪ Pain of a rather more tangible nature brought about Ricky Ellcock's tragically premature retirement.
▪ This problem is much worse for those who are forced into premature retirement through redundancy.
▪ Refusing the offer of the Interior portfolio, he had announced his premature retirement from public service.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alcoholism is one of the major causes of premature death.
▪ Her baby was premature and weighed only 2kg.
▪ It has been proved that sunbathing causes premature ageing of the skin.
▪ It would be premature to conclude that Wilson will lose the election.
▪ Payton's premature death was caused by lung cancer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And just exactly how many weeks premature is this baby?
▪ But I caught myself, decided not to make premature judgments, and tried to listen as sympathetically as I could.
▪ Even so, Mr Mieno seems in no mood to be pushed into premature easing.
▪ I wanted everything to advance at its own pace-no abrupt moves, no premature gestures.
▪ Naturally, this is much more difficult for the parents of a premature infant.
▪ They looked empty and forlorn as if they had not yet adjusted themselves to their premature change of life.
▪ Traffic was at an angry crawl, a dazzling confusion of lights and wet reflections in the premature darkness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premature

Premature \Pre`ma*ture"\, a. [L. praematurus; prae before + maturus ripe. See Mature.]

  1. Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

  2. Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

  3. Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report. [1913 Webster] -- Pre`ma*ture"ly, adv. -- Pre`ma*ture"ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
premature

mid-15c., from Latin praematurus "early ripe" (as fruit), "too early, untimely," from prae "before" (see pre-) + maturus "ripe, timely" (see mature (v.)). Related: Prematurely; prematurity; prematuration. Premature ejaculation is attested from 1848; Latin euphemism ejaculatio praecox dates to 1891 in English but was used earlier in German and appears to have been, at first at least, the psychologist's term for it.

Wiktionary
premature

a. 1 Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived. 2 Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired. 3 (context informal English) Suffering from premature ejaculation.

WordNet
premature
  1. adj. born after a gestation period of less than the normal time; "a premature infant" [ant: full-term]

  2. too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment" [syn: previous(p)]

  3. uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end" [syn: untimely]

Wikipedia
PREMature

PREMature is a British television drama miniseries produced by Liger Films that first aired on the Community Channel and was crowdfunded through Kickstarter. It is the first drama series for the Community Channel and consists of 6 episodes.

Premature (film)

Premature is a 2014 American comedy film directed by Dan Beers, at his directorial debut, and featuring John Karna, Katie Findlay, and Alan Tudyk in the lead roles. It was written by Dan Beers and Mathew Harawitz, produced by Karen Lunder and Aaron Ryder, Music by Nick Urata, Cinematography by Jimmy Lindsey and Editing by Robert Nassau.

Usage examples of "premature".

They were at the Tuesday-night antenatal class, they lay next to each other on the floor and waited for the relaxation teacher to return from assisting a woman in the Ready-to-Pop class who had gone into premature labor.

Until that time comes, if it ever does, it seems to me premature to put faith in the Anthropic Principle as an argument for human centrality or uniqueness.

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to ask for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

A few babies, among them premature ones, had already been born in the United States with deformities similar to those in other countries where the mothers of defective children had taken Montayne during pregnancy.

There was a simple way to end this premature thrust, though it outmatched simplicity with daring.

UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE: It is evident that the old method of taxing forest property, as well as other property, at its supposedly full value will, as the value of timber increases and is recognized, put a premium on premature and reckless cutting, and will hinder any effort to reforest cut-over lands.

Too much care cannot be used in sponging, as a premature explosion endangers life and limb.

Gloves are truly an unexceptionable gift from a gentleman to a lady, though it is perhaps a little premature after such a short acquaintance.

His voice was soft and light, and his unexercised life gave him a juvenile chubbiness rather than the paunchiness of premature middle age.

Born, as we have said, in a boarding-house, left entirely in charge of the nurse-maid, educated at a fashionable day-school, brought into society before fifteen, living in the whirl, the bustle, the luxury, and the unhomeliness of a hotel, what could you expect of Miss Flora but that she should be, at seventeen years of age, a butterfly in her habits, a clever dunce as regards solid knowledge, and a premature woman of the world in her tastes and manners?

However depressing the thud of earth on the coffin-lid may be, it is music compared to the rattle of gravel and thump of spades which herald a premature and unreverend resurrection, enveloped in clouds of formalin and without benefit of clergy.

In 1853 Charcot reported the birth of a premature fetus presenting numerous variolous pustules together with ulcerations of the derm and mucous membranes and stomach, although the mother had convalesced of the disease some time before.

Our literature, before long, will be like some of those premature and aspiring whipsters, who become old men before they are young ones, and fancy they prove their manhood by their profligacy and their diseases.

And as with pre-Fall humans suffering serious injury or premature death, as Daeman once experienced upon being eaten by an allosaurus, Firmary birth was something so traumatic that it had to be blocked from memory.

Seeing the premature ruins of contemporary society was creepily post-apocalyptic.