Definition of "ripened" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of ripen. (verb)

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• "The latter rain ripened the grain, as the former rain in October tended to fructify the seed."
• "Directly the rains ceased, the grain ripened with still greater rapidity, and was gathered in before the end of May."
• "But care should be taken that the wood has ripened, which is known by its assuming a brown and hard appearance, This strengthens the vegetation of the branches, which begin to throw out buds, and these shortly form collateral branches; in the course of eighteen months after the tree will have arrived at its bearing point."