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Definitionv. cause to ripen or develop fully
Last update: October 30, 2015
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Raw bananas will take time to ripen. [verb]
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Keep this raw papaya inside for ripening. [verb]
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A baby bell pepper producing miniature fruits that ripen green to red. [verb]
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All fruits that ripen in response to ethene show a characteristic rise in respiratory rate before the ripening phase, called a climacteric. [verb]
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Man is always looking toward the Promised Land, and there the harvests are to ripen with no fear of their being torn up by shells or crushed by cannon wheels. [verb]
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Let that feeling ripen. [verb]
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By the influence of his warm and gentle rays he disperses the noxious vapours of the night, assists the grain to ripen and the flowers to bloom. [verb]
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Axillary or terminal spikes; they have four stamens, which bear at the back four small herbaceous petal-like structures, and four free carpels, which ripen to form four small green fleshy fruits, each containing one seed within a hard inner coat;. [Please select]
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The friendships of the young ripen fast, and under such circumstances they ripen faster than ever. [Please select]
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"May I hang my pods on you, so that they can ripen in the sun." [Please select]
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Not one word of love passed between these two who waited for the fruit to ripen. [Please select]
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