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# ripening

«ripening» in Mova's school dictionary: **becoming ripe — ready to eat, soft, sweet and coloured** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (-ing of ripen: ripen, ripens, ripened, ripening); noun (ripening — the process)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ripening means becoming ripe — ready to eat, soft, sweet and coloured. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#m1)

2) Ripening can describe something that is slowly developing or getting ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Science (plants and life cycles): fruit ripens after flowers are pollinated; bananas change from green to yellow. Everyday life: put an unripe avocado in a bag with a banana to speed up ripening, because ripening fruit gives off a gas (ethylene). Seasons: the ripening corn in late summer. Phrases: ripening fruit, ripening in the sun, ripening process.

### examples

- The tomatoes are ripening on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x1)
- Ripening bananas turn from green to yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x2)
- The apples are ripening in the orchard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x3)
- Sunshine helps the ripening of grapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x4)
- Put the pears in a bag to speed up ripening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x5)
- Fields of ripening wheat turned gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x6)

### note

From ripe → ripen (-en makes a verb: become ripe) → ripening. Unripe fruit can be hard and sour; overripe fruit is too soft. Some fruit keeps ripening after picking (bananas), some does not (grapes).

### Trees and pragmatics

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