Ripen vs Indigested - What's the difference?
ripen | indigested |
to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
* 1918 , (John Muir), Steep Trails Chapter XII
*:...the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
To approach or come to perfection.
To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
Not digested; undigested
* Dryden
Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude.
* Burke
* South
(medicine, obsolete) Not in a state suitable for healing; said of wounds.
(medicine, obsolete) Not ripened or suppurated; said of an abscess or its contents.
Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.
(Webster 1913)
As a verb ripen
is to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;.As an adjective indigested is
not digested; undigested.ripen
English
(Ripening)Verb
(en verb)- Grapes ripen in the sun.
- When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. --Milton.
Derived terms
* ripeningAnagrams
* English ergative verbsindigested
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Indigested food.
- an indigested array of facts
- In hot reformations the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested .
- This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.
