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ripening
noun as in development
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Strong matches
noun as in gestation
noun as in unfolding
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Example Sentences
The ideal tomme-ripening cave sat below the house that her family had just sold.
The 2017 growing season was exceptional, being a warm year with a good amount of rainfall to fully ripen the fruit and maintain a nice acidity.
If you decide to include the pears to serve as a dessert later, look for ones that are just ripening — not hard and woody, not soft.
This was the third hot, dry vintage in a row, explains Master of Wine Jasper Morris, author of Inside Burgundy, who describes a July with brutal heat waves that pushed ripening.
I remember ripening coffee beans hanging down the banks, and masses of wild orchids.
The plant is strong and vigorous, ripening in a few weeks, and when properly cultivated (p. 385) attaining a very large size.
Even the first blossoms of your youth paid us all that could be expected from a ripening manhood.
Trellises, burdened with ripening grapes, were the boundary line between the garden and the orchard.
Under the corners of her eyes above the rounded cheeks a pink stain lay like the first ripening flush on a wild strawberry.
Nothing but brabblings, scufflings, objurgations; a great outbreak ripening itself.
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On this page you'll find 118 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ripening, such as: advancement, evolution, expansion, improvement, increase, and progress.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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