Definition of Ripe

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Definition of Ripe

Ripe

The bank of a river.

Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.

Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.

Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.

Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.

Ready for action or effect; prepared.

Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

Intoxicated.

To ripen; to grow ripe.

To mature; to ripen.

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Ripe Quotations

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina Jolie

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
Ray Kroc

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Ray Kroc

Ripe Translations

ripe in Afrikaans is ryp
ripe in Danish is moden
ripe in Dutch is rijp, bezonken, belegen
ripe in German is reif
ripe in Italian is maturo
ripe in Latin is esculentus
ripe in Norwegian is moden
ripe in Portuguese is maduro
ripe in Spanish is maduro, cerco
ripe in Swedish is mogen

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