Acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time.
Coming to full development; becoming mature.
1 Fruit development and ripening are essential components of human and animal diets.
2 Until the ripening time no one shall know what is here contracted.
3 Consequently, the number of larvae, which feed on ripening tangerines, quickly declines.
4 This, however, was the large idea ripening in the breast of Carroway.
5 His plans are far from ripe, I think, but they are ripening .
6 The arrows of the decumbent sun gilded the ripening grapes above them.
7 The very crops ripening to harvest had been gathered in and burnt.
8 The essential role of ethylene in fruit ripening has been thoroughly studied.
9 The great conspiracy was ripening and about to burst visibly to light.
10 But the prize had always been there, ripening , waiting to be taken.
11 The bananas give off ethylene, a clear, odorless gas that promotes ripening .
12 The wooing Indian climate was fast ripening the exquisite loveliness of eighteen.
13 Storage may be shortly before ripening or it may be for weeks.
14 The summer fields were ripening and the grapevines were heavy with fruit.
15 He held her, and she looked past him at the ripening moon.
16 Birotteau was like certain vegetables; transplant them, and you stop their ripening .
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