Crossword-Solution: RIPENING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ripening | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Ripen |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RIPENING | anagram | REPINING |
We have 9 clues for the answer “RIPENING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| " . . . summer's ___ breath": Juliet | 1 answer |
| Getting ready, in a way | 1 answer |
| Going from green to yellow, maybe | 1 answer |
| Turning red, maybe | 1 answer |
| What ethylene may be used for | 1 answer |
| acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | 1 answer |
| Maturation | 10 answers |
| COMING TO MATURITY | 12 answers |
| Aging | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIPENING (5)
The Fox and the Grapes One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch.
Farmers were out to defend their cattle-sheds, granaries, and ripening root crops with arms in their hands.
Some studied how to watch the tender buds, when to spread them to the sunlight, and when to shelter them from rain; how to guard the ripening seeds, and when to lay them in the warm earth or send them on the summer wind to far off hills and valleys, where other Fairy hands would tend and cherish them, till a sisterhood of happy flowers sprang up to beautify and gladden the lonely spot where they had fallen.
She sat with half-closed eyes as the train rushed through the familiar landscape; and now the memories of her former journey, instead of flying before her like dead leaves, seemed to be ripening in her blood like sleeping grain.
Some little victual he had with him, and he found woodland fruit ripening here and there, and eked out his bread therewith; neither did water fail him, for he rode a good way up along a woodland stream that cleft the thicket, coming down as he deemed from the mountains, and thereby he made the more way: but at last he deemed that he must needs leave it, as it turned overmuch to the north.
Quotes with RIPENING (3)
Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the starshine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave bereft I am not there. I have not left.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life, in understanding and in creating. There is no measuring in time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1981–2024).