When fruit becomes ripe and ready to eat, it ripens. Tomatoes will ripen after you pick them, becoming darker red and more juicy.
To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
Verb
grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"
Verb
cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"
v. i.
To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers,
and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
v. i.
To approach or come to perfection.
v. t.
To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days
ripened the corn.
v. t.
To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as,
to ripen the judgment.
Ripen
Ripen
When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God.
To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
To cause to mature; to make ripe;
Usage Examples
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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