ripe
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
- Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
- Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
- Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- Ready, willing, eager.
- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Intoxicated.
- Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- Rife
Noun
- A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
- The bank of a river.
- A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).
Verb
- To ripen or mature
- To search; to rummage.
Proper noun
- A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).
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