Ripening
['raɪpən]
Definition
(noun.) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripen
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Examples
- Now she was simply ripening into a copy of her mother, and mysteriously, by the very process, trying to turn him into a Mr. Welland. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They are ripening fast. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I see trees laden with ripening fruit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Even in the ripening of fruits heat appears to him to h ave a cooking effect. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Obstacles were a ripening sun to his love, and he was at this moment in a delirium of exquisite misery. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The slow ripening of it still left me a measure of precaution to take, an obligation of gratitude to perform, and a doubtful question to solve. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The peaches are ripening. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- On the contrary, the conditions for its acceptance had been ripening fast. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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