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# ripened

«ripened» in Mova's school dictionary: **Became ripe: fruit or grain grew ready to eat or harvest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb, past form of «ripen» (ripen, ripens, ripened, ripening); adjective (ripened)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Became ripe: fruit or grain grew ready to eat or harvest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#m1)

2) Made something ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#m2)

3) (of ideas, plans, cheese) Developed fully over time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons it describes fruit changing colour, getting softer and sweeter. In everyday life green bananas ripened on the windowsill. Old phrases: «the time was ripe» means the right moment had come. Phrases: «sun-ripened», «ripened on the vine».

### examples

- The tomatoes ripened in the greenhouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#x1)
- The bananas ripened faster in a paper bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#x2)
- Sun-ripened strawberries taste the sweetest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#x3)
- By August the wheat had ripened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#x4)
- The cheese ripened in a cave for months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#x5)
- Her plan ripened slowly over the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/#x6)

### note

Past form of «ripen». Fact: some fruits like bananas, avocados and pears keep ripening after picking; others, like strawberries and grapes, do not. Ethylene gas from bananas speeds up ripening of nearby fruit.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ripened» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripened/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.