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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ripens
Fruit ripens not well in the shade. [ Proverb ]
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. [ Landor ]
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]
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