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Crossword-Solution: RIPEN 5 letters, 182 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Ripen v. i. To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers,
and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
Ripen v. i. To approach or come to perfection.
Ripen v. t. To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days
ripened the corn.
Ripen v. t. To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as,
to ripen the judgment.

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Word Anagrams
RIPEN anagram PERIN, PINER, PRINE, REPIN

We have 182 clues for the answer “RIPEN”

Clue Answers
Achieve peak flavor 1 answer
Achieve peak juiciness 1 answer
Age on a vine 1 answer
Age on the vine 1 answer
Age on the vine, maybe 1 answer
Age or cure 1 answer
Age, as cheese 1 answer
Approach harvestability 1 answer
Approach peak flavor 1 answer
Approach perfection 1 answer
Attain maturity 1 answer
Attain the right flavor 1 answer
BECOME ready to pick 1 answer
Become edible, as a fruit 1 answer
Become edible, as fruit 1 answer
Become edible, e.g. 1 answer
Become edible, in a way 1 answer
Become harvestable 1 answer
Become juicy, say 1 answer
Become less green, maybe 1 answer
Become less sour, say 1 answer
Become more tasty 1 answer
Become ready 1 answer
Become ready for harvest. 1 answer
Become ready for picking 1 answer
Become ready to eat 1 answer
Become ready to harvest 1 answer
Become ready to pluck 1 answer
Become ready to reap 1 answer
Become red, maybe 1 answer
Become sweet and juicy, say 1 answer
Become sweeter, perhaps 1 answer
Become tastier, say 1 answer
Become yellow, like a banana 1 answer
Bring to a peak 1 answer
Bring to completeness. 1 answer
Bring to maturity, on the vine 1 answer
Change color, often 1 answer
Change color, perhaps 1 answer
Change from green to red, maybe 1 answer
Come to maturity 1 answer
Continue to hang on the tree 1 answer
Develop fully 1 answer
Develop on a vine, say 1 answer
Gain succulence 1 answer
Get fully ready 1 answer
Get ready for the apple store, perhaps? 1 answer
Get ready to be picked 1 answer
Get ready to eat 1 answer
Get red, perhaps 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIPEN (5)

The Jackdaw and the Fox A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
There was no morbidness in Phœbe; if there had been, the old Pyncheon House was the very locality to ripen it into incurable disease.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
That possibility to which he had looked forward, it seemed to him for years--that companionship, that intimacy with his fellow-lodger, that delightful acquaintance which was only to ripen at some far distant time, he could not exactly say when--behold, it had suddenly come to a head, here in this over-crowded, over-heated room, in the midst of all this feeding, surrounded by odors of hot dishes, accompanied by the sounds of incessant mastication.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
His body, which had been beautiful in movement and in being, shrank, did not seem to ripen with the years, but to get mean and rather despicable.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995
Natchez is the furthest point to the north at which oranges ripen in the open air, or endure the winter without shelter.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with RIPEN (3)

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation... Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten. Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with finding Breathless her breast her high blood rising To ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty.“That sort of thing,” Simmon said absently, his eyes still scanning the pages in front of him. I saw Fela turn her head to look at Simmon, almost as if she were surprised to see him sitting there. No, it w…
Patrick Rothfuss The Wise Man's Fear
The garden of God is full of ripen fruits.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 332 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).