Ripe
The bank of a river.
Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
Ready for action or effect; prepared.
Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
Intoxicated.
To ripen; to grow ripe.
To mature; to ripen.
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Ripe Quotations
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina Jolie
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
Henry Knox
I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
Ryan Stiles
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Camille Paglia
Ripe Translations
ripe in Afrikaans is ryp
ripe in Danish is moden
ripe in Dutch is rijp, bezonken, belegen
ripe in German is reif
ripe in Italian is maturo
ripe in Latin is esculentus
ripe in Norwegian is moden
ripe in Portuguese is maduro
ripe in Spanish is maduro, cerco
ripe in Swedish is mogen
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