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UK
/ɹˈaɪpən/
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[ US /ˈɹaɪpən/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪpən/ ]
VERB
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cause to ripen or develop fully
Age matures a good wine
The sun ripens the fruit -
grow ripe
The plums ripen in July
How To Use ripen In A Sentence
- They're compelling red wines of pipe-organ depth and power without excessive alcohol or overripeness. Two Worlds of Argentine Wines
- Untitled eying me thusly you ripen my rainbow with your vat of honey spilling with a dewdrop smile you've found me, lucky one now dare you dare me not to (,) do you? we'll meet not under clover sheets rather on your greedy bed in violets PALTRY POULTRY POETRY: A Collection of Unprose From the Mind of a Senile Teen
- On walls, ivy was glossy leaved and covered in clusters of green berries waiting to ripen to black. Times, Sunday Times
- It relieves menstrual pains, promotes menstruation, treats rheumatic aches and pains, and ripens carbuncles, sores and abscesses.
- 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).
- 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