RIPEN

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

2.
v.

To approach or come to perfection.

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

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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