RIPEN

ripen

Verb

  1. to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
  2. To approach or come to perfection.
  3. To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
  4. To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
    When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. --Milton.


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