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ripe

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Adjective

  1. Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
  2. Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
  3. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
  4. Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
  5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  6. Ready, willing, eager.
  7. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  8. Intoxicated.
  9. Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
  10. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
  11. Rife

Noun

  1. A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
  2. The bank of a river.
  3. A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).

Verb

  1. To ripen or mature
  2. To search; to rummage.

Proper noun

  1. A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).

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