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# ripening

verb form (-ing of ripen: ripen, ripens, ripened, ripening); noun (ripening — the process)

«ripening» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Ripening means becoming ripe — ready to eat, soft, sweet and coloured. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#m1)
2. Ripening can describe something that is slowly developing or getting ready. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#m2)

### In the lessons

Science (plants and life cycles): fruit ripens after flowers are pollinated; bananas change from green to yellow. Everyday life: put an unripe avocado in a bag with a banana to speed up ripening, because ripening fruit gives off a gas (ethylene). Seasons: the ripening corn in late summer. Phrases: ripening fruit, ripening in the sun, ripening process.

### Examples

- The tomatoes are ripening on the windowsill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x1)
- Ripening bananas turn from green to yellow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x2)
- The apples are ripening in the orchard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x3)
- Sunshine helps the ripening of grapes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x4)
- Put the pears in a bag to speed up ripening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x5)
- Fields of ripening wheat turned gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/#x6)

### Note

From ripe → ripen (-en makes a verb: become ripe) → ripening. Unripe fruit can be hard and sour; overripe fruit is too soft. Some fruit keeps ripening after picking (bananas), some does not (grapes).

## In Jewish tradition

In Isaiah it means the grape swelling toward ripeness just before God cuts it away, a picture of sudden judgment.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as God acting at the moment the enemy seems about to succeed, as a promise that He will end the threat.

### Examples

- For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off. (Prophets ISA.18.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripening/#x1)

### Note

From ripe → ripen (-en makes a verb: become ripe) → ripening. Unripe fruit can be hard and sour; overripe fruit is too soft. Some fruit keeps ripening after picking (bananas), some does not (grapes).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ripening» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripening/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ripening» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ripening.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «ripening» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripening/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ripening» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/ripening.html) on Mova free.