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[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪpən/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪpən/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to ripen or develop fully
    Age matures a good wine
    The sun ripens the fruit
  2. grow ripe
    The plums ripen in July

How To Use ripen In A Sentence

  • Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
  • As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
  • So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
  • We also ordered a cheese platter with three kinds of cheeses (two unripened and one aged).
  • They're compelling red wines of pipe-organ depth and power without excessive alcohol or overripeness. Two Worlds of Argentine Wines
  • Never refrigerate tomatoes that are not fully ripe because cold temperatures stop the ripening process.
  • As the vines have yielded their fruit by midsummer and ripened their wood early so as to be ready for starting into growth again in December or January, the grapery is kept cool and ventilated in the fall and early winter, but this need not interfere with the mushroom crop. Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure
  • The seed takes several weeks to ripen, during which time you should cover the seedhead with cheesecloth or prevent birds and squirrels from helping themselves. Groundwork: The deliciously seedy sunflower
  • It is left to mature in the cellar and the final ripening stage takes place in a spruce wood box, where the cheese is kept for at least 3 weeks.
  • Cottage Cheese, also a fresh unripened cheese, generally has additional milk or cream mixed with the curd.
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