ripen

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. to grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.) intransitive
    — Grapes ripen in the sun.
  2. To approach or come to perfection. intransitive
    — The acquaintance soon ripened into a warm attachment.
  3. To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe transitive
    — The warm sun ripened the corn.
  4. To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection transitive
    — ripen the judgment

词形变化

ripens present,singular,third-person ripening participle,present ripened participle,past ripened past

词汇关系

衍生词
antiripening enripen overripen postripening ripener ripening ripeningly ripen up underripened unripened unripening
相关词
ripeness

词源

From Middle English *ripenen, extended form of ripen, from Old English rīpian. In the modern form, equivalent to ripe + -en (inchoative and factitive suffix). As in several other verbs, the alteration seems to have occurred during the time when the infinitive and plural ending -en was in the process of being lost (and was thus open to reinterpretation). The earliest attestation is deverbal Middle English ripening (“causing ripeness, ripening”).
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