ripe¹ /rīp/

1. Ready for harvest
2. Arrived at perfection
3. Fit for use
4. Fully developed
5. Finished
6. Ready for a particular purpose or action
7. Resembling ripe fruit
8. Mature
9. (of cheese) mature, strong-smelling
10. (of language, etc) somewhat indecent or over-colourfully expressive
11. Rich and strong in quality
12. Complete, thorough (slang)
13. Excellent (slang)
14. Excessive (slang)

To ripen

ripeˈly adverb

rīˈpen transitive verb and intransitive verb

To make or grow ripe or riper

ripeˈness noun

ripe² /rīp/ (Scot)

To grope, search, ransack

rīˈper noun

• bourrée
• bourrées
• bourse
• bourses
• boursier
• boursiers
• bourtree
• bourtree-gun
• bourtree-guns
• bourtrees
• bouse
• boused
• bouses
• stichoi
• stichologies
• stichology
• stichometric
• stichometrical
• stichometrically
• stichometries
• stichometry
• stichomythia
• stichomythias
• stichomythic
• stichos