Definition of "overripen" []

• To ripen too much; to become overripe. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Granite is an acidic soil at altitude and this combination of very hot days and cool nights means the grapes don't overripen and produce too much sugar."
• "This book, his greatest (though he claimed to prefer two of his more refined and ponderous works), is lovable enough, unsettling enough and dissatisfying enough -- altogether granular enough -- that I hereby make the following prediction: "Huckleberry Finn" will never overripen, nor grow stale, nor ossify."
• "After medlars are picked they are stored calyx end down and allowed to overripen."