ripen.
Of grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature.
Meaning & usage
Of grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature.
Grapes ripen in the sun.
To approach or come to perfection.
To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe.
The warm sun ripened the corn.
To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection.
ripen the judgment
Where this word comes from
From Middle English *ripenen, extended form of ripen, from Old English rīpian. In the modern form, equivalent to ripe + -en (inchoative and factitive suffix). As in several other verbs, the alteration seems to have occurred during the time when the infinitive and plural ending -en was in the process of being lost (and was thus open to reinterpretation). The earliest attestation is deverbal Middle English ripening (“causing ripeness, ripening”).
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