Crossword clues for ripen
ripen
- Reach perfection
- Lose greenness
- Bring to maturity, on the vine
- Become edible, as fruit
- Yellow or redden, perhaps
- Turn yellow, as a banana
- Turn sweet and juicy
- Redden, perhaps
- React to mold, as cheese
- Reach maturity
- Mature on a vine
- Mature like a mango
- Mature in the orchard
- Go from green to red, perhaps
- Go from green to red, often
- Get red, perhaps
- Get mellow
- Become ready to pluck
- Become ready for picking
- Attain maturity
- Approach peak flavor
- Age on the vine
- Age on a vine
- What raw talent needs to do
- What flourishing careers do
- What burgeoning careers do
- Turn yellow or red, say
- Turn red on the vine, say
- Turn from green to red
- Reach the peak of flavor
- Reach peak flavor
- Prepare to be picked
- Prepare to be eaten
- Mature, as a peach
- Grow to maturity
- Grow red, say
- Go green, maybe
- Go from green to red, say
- Get sweeter, say
- Get sweeter
- Get softer and sweeter, perhaps
- Get ready to pluck
- Get ready for the apple store, perhaps?
- Decide not to go green?
- Change color, perhaps
- Become yellow, like a banana
- Become red, like tomatoes
- Become ready to reap
- Become ready for harvest
- Become ready
- Become more tasty
- Become less sour, say
- Become less green, maybe
- Become juicy and ready to eat
- Become edible, as a fruit
- Approach harvestability
- Age, as fruit
- Achieve peak juiciness
- Achieve peak flavor
- "Just can't ___ underwater" Panic! at the Disco
- Come of age?
- Get ready to be picked
- Turn yellow, maybe
- Mature, as fruit
- Turn red, perhaps
- Age, as cheese
- Gain succulence
- Yellow, perhaps
- Flower
- Turn color, maybe
- Become harvestable
- Turn red, maybe
- Turn red, as a strawberry
- Turn red or yellow, say
- Turn red, as an apple
- Soften, often
- Bring to perfection
- React to mold, perhaps
- Get fully ready
- Gain maturity
- Turn red, say
- Approach perfection
- Come to fruition
- Develop fully
- Bring to a peak
- Mellow
- Come to maturity
- Age or cure
- Mellow epitaph on bottom of tombstone by name
- Mature writing with Apple device?
- Mature writer on middle of trip
- Mature writer after Irish backing
- Mature writer on Christian discipline?
- Mature player originally employed by French FA
- Mature - or mature to a point
- Age in US State prison
- Religious and physical education associated with dawn of New Age
- Become ready to eat carp — no good before noon
- Become mature
- Develop paper in, for example, reading and writing
- Develop and rent space
- Mature on the vine
- Become ready to harvest
- Get mellower
- Become more mature
- Become edible, e.g
- Mature, as a mango
- Brown, perhaps
- Become ready to pick
- Become ready to eat
- Become edible, in a way
- Approach maturity
- Turn red, as tomatoes
- To mature, as fruit
- Grow mature
- Get ready to eat?
- Bring to maturity
- Turn red, in some cases
- Turn red, as a tomato
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ripen \Rip"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ripened;p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
Ripen \Rip"en\, v. t.
To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
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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.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to grow ripe," 1560s, from ripe + -en (1). Related: Ripened; ripening. Earlier, the verb was simply ripe, from late Old English ripian, from the adjective.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; 2 (context intransitive English) To approach or come to perfection. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn. 4 (context transitive English) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
WordNet
v. cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [syn: mature]
grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"
Wikipedia
Ripen is the second studio album from American-Christian singer-songwriter Shawn McDonald. The album was released on March 7, 2006 on Sparrow Records. This album was produced by Will Hunt and Christopher Stevens. The album attained commercial charting successes and critical acclamation.
Usage examples of "ripen".
Quietly, she sat down a few feet from him, breathing deeply of the sweet, cidery scent of ripening apples.
They are all climacteric fruits, and as long as they are picked fully mature in size and shape, they will ripen to some extent and in some ways.
In Persia the fruit ripens, and is eaten there as a dessert delicacy which is much prized.
Her body, with its angular contours, its unexpected junctions of mucous membrane and hairline, detrusor muscle and erectile tissue, was a ripening anthology of perverse possibilities.
But it was the young bluegrass and ripening fescue and feather grasses that predominated, turning the steppes into waves of softly billowing silver accented by shadows of blue sage.
However, I left everything as it was, as my plans had not been sufficiently ripened by time for me to appropriate any object in particular.
I still loved the fair sex, though my ardour had decreased, my experience had ripened, and my caution increased.
Where lawns had been were ridges of brown potato haulm, onions bent over to ripen, carrots, swedes, winter greens.
After Traigh, the head stableman, saddled Laith, she rode northward to Moytura, past the crops ripening in the fields, the many farmsteads and barns along the way.
In the evening, he exerted himself so far as to walk with his daughter to view the environs that overlook the lake of Leucate, the Mediterranean, part of Rousillon, with the Pyrenees, and a wide extent of the luxuriant province of Languedoc, now blushing with the ripened vintage, which the peasants were beginning to gather.
Doric architecture of the frottola had to be developed into the Italian Renaissance style of the madrigal by the ripening of the craft of composers in adapting the music of ecclesiastical polyphony to the communication of worldly thought.
I looked out at green meadows, oast houses, the ripening hops and the fruit-laden trees of the orchards which were a feature of this part of the country.
Spreading his cloak so that it covered both his head and that of the deceased, the ancient ollamh remained in this morbid communion despite the ripening stink of death.
Blackberries were ripe, or ripening, and every wild rose bush had its smooth, red, ovular fruits.
The fresh tomatoes, he knew, would be worth their weight in rhenium when they ripened.