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/rˈaɪpənɪŋ/ /rˈaɪpnɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Ripen v. t.

To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.

To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment. "When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God."

Ripen v. i. (past & past part. ripened;pres. part. ripening)

To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

To approach or come to perfection.

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Etymology of 'Ripening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ripening" Quotes from Famous Books

... among its veiling trees. The blue waving line of the downs, crowned here and there by clumps of trees, ran far along the southwestern horizon, melting vaporously in the distance above "the Vale, the three lone weirs, the youthful Thames." Over the downs and over the wide valley of ripening cornfields, of indigo hedgerow-elms and greener willow and woodland, of red-roofed homesteads and towered churches, moved slowly the broad shadows of rolling clouds that journeyed through the intense blue above. Some shadows were like veils of pale gray gauze, through which the world ...

— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods

... peace! And do you hope to end What you have now begun? Say, do you hope To check the ripening change of Christendom, The universal spring, that shall renew The earth's fair form? Would you alone, in Europe, Fling yourself down before the rapid wheel Of destiny, which rolls its ceaseless course, And seize its spokes with human arm. Vain ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a ...

— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... their post, by terrors unsubdued, They with redoubling force their task pursued. 700 And now the senior pilots seem'd to wait Arion's voice, to close the dark debate. Not o'er his vernal life the ripening sun Had yet progressive twice ten summers run; Slow to debate, yet eager to excel, In thy sad school, stern Neptune! taught too well: With lasting pain to rend his youthful heart, Dire fate in venom dipp'd her keenest dart; ...

— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Rev. George Gilfillan [Ed.]

... may be introduced by referring to the unusual attention given to fruit at the time of ripening. The economical housekeeper takes certain foods when they are most plentiful and preserves them for use when they are not in season. Some foods require special care to keep them from decaying. The decay is caused by the action of microscopic plants called "bacteria", ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management • Ministry of Education

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