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• n  coming to full development; becoming mature
• n  acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time
• v  cause to ripen or develop fully
• v  grow ripe

• From coast to coast, the summer sun is ripening record harvests of wheat, corn, oranges, apples, but, as any American housewife knows only too well, the price for those harvests is .
• A ripening barley field in Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire, Britain .
• As a ripening thug he shuttled between homes and detention centers and the safe houses maintained by his gang.

• maturation
• maturement
• aging
• ageing
• ripen
• mature

News & Articles

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• DABLEMONT: Sawtaying the Summer Bounty
  Every year at this time, I point out that the ripening berries in the Ozarks should be put to good use, and the same thing with wild poke, from which poke greens, utilizing young leaves, are cooked. If you are someone who enjoys hunting mushrooms, I can tell you about something much easier to find, and yet just as good to eat. The abundant, orange day-lilies are everywhere, and blooming now ...
  June 24, 2013 - The Morning Sun
• Berry-picking in Tyrone to help needy families
  Jack and Shirley Smith pick vine-fresh blackberries, part of a ripening crop right of both blackberries and blueberries at the Real Life Fruit Orchard. The orchard was started in 2011 with the help of many individuals and businesses to help provide fresh fruit for families going through tough times. The fruit compliments the fresh vegetables that are currently received through the Master ...
  June 24, 2013 - The Fayette Citizen
• Maine strawberry crop promising, but slow to come
  CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Farmers say it looks to be a good year for Maine's much-anticipated strawberry crop. But they say the season might arrive a little later than usual. Jodie Jordan of Alewive's Brook Farm in Cape Elizabeth tells WCSH-TV ( http://on.wcsh6.com/14SGl81 ) that the crop looks promising, but some cold nights this month have slowed the ripening process. Jordan said when ...
  June 24, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Ehud Olmert in Brooks Bulletin
  Things are happening that haven't happened in the past, and they're ripening. We have to know how to take advantage of this opportunity,Olmert told the paper.
• John Kerry in New York Times
  Mr. Kerry, in an interview, said, "I think there's been a certain amount of mutual ripening."
• Alessandra Stanley in Telegraph.co.uk
  The New York Times was similarly brutal, describing Mrs Beckham as someone who is "somewhat famous for being sort of famous, and is photographed a lot in Britain, a nation so open to media hypnosis that a website devoted to the ripening of a...