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Ripen   /rˈaɪpən/   Listen
Ripen

verb
(past & past part. ripened;pres. part. ripening)
1.
Cause to ripen or develop fully.  Synonym: mature.  "Age matures a good wine"
2.
Grow ripe.



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"Ripen" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Ox command To kneel to Judah's King, He binds His frost upon the land To ripen it for Spring— To ripen it for Spring, good sirs, According to His word; Which well must be as ye can see— And who shall ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling

... first as a seed, then as a blade, and then as the ear which the sun of Christianity was to ripen into the full corn. The highest truth was present, implicitly, in Judaism, and became explicit in Christianity. The law was the schoolmaster to bring men to Christ. It taught, however imperfectly, a supreme and living ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

... know not) the whole disappeared, and also two bottles of Chambertin, which I seem to taste now. My sweetheart's eyes gleamed with pleasure: truly Chambertin and Roquefort are excellent thinks to restore an old love and to ripen ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... Fruit-Elves loosened the earth around each strawberry root, that its shoots might push through to the light. They shaped the plant's leaves, and turned its blossoms toward the warm rays of the sun. They trained its runners, and assisted the timid fruit to form. They painted the luscious berry, and bade it ripen. And when the first strawberries blushed on the vines, these guardian Elves protected them from the evil insects that had escaped from the world of ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... the three in the barn together, and kept them there a day and a night. Still the friendship did not ripen; the ducks and the drake separated the moment we let them out. Left to himself, the drake at once turned his head homeward, and started up ...
— The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers • John Burroughs


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