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Definition of Ripen

Ripen

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.

To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.

To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.

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Ripen Quotations

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller

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.
Epictetus

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.
Epictetus

The 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.
Galileo Galilei

Minds ripen at very different ages.
Stevie Wonder

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot

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.
Cyrano de Bergerac

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
Liv Tyler

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Ripen Translations

ripen in Dutch is rijp worden, rijpen
ripen in French is muris, murir, murissent, murissons, murissez
ripen in German is reifst, reifen
ripen in Spanish is madurar
ripen in Swedish is mogna

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