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overripe

adjective as in decadent

adjective as in decayed

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The process is simple: the overripe bananas are peeled, cut into small pieces, weighed, and mixed with sugar, yeast, raisins, water and covered with lemons.

From BBC

Knowing what to look for will ensure you choose ripe, flavorful peaches rather than disappointing, overripe or green peaches.

A fat, curvy sofa that resembles a piece of overripe fruit.

These are drawn using a medium that combines “gross but beautiful” overripe figs she found splattered on sidewalks, then pressed with crayon, iron powder and salt.

Workers on trucks tipped 120 tons of overripe tomatoes into the main street of the town for participants to throw.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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