Associations to the word «Ripen»

Wiktionary

RIPEN, verb. (intransitive) to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
RIPEN, verb. (intransitive) To approach or come to perfection.
RIPEN, verb. (transitive) To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
RIPEN, verb. (transitive) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
RIPEN UP, verb. (idiomatic) (intransitive) to ripen; become ripe

Dictionary definition

RIPEN, verb. Cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine".
RIPEN, verb. Grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats