cause to ripen or develop fully
"The sun ripens the fruit"
"Age matures a good wine"
grow ripe
"The plums ripen in July"
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ripen
Time and straw ripen medlars. [ Proverb ]
Success is a fruit slow to ripen.
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. [ William Shakespeare ]
Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions. [ Bishop Porteous ]
The flowers are gone when the fruits appear to ripen. [ Pope ]
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. [ Margaret Fuller ]
A little love rapidly develops the sensibilities and intelligence of women: it is through the heart that they ripen or mold. [ Latena ]
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