overripen
English
Etymology
over- + ripen
Verb
overripen (third-person singular simple present overripens, present participle overripening, simple past and past participle overripened)
- To ripen too much; to become overripe.
- 2007 February 15, Claudia La Rocco, “Dancers, and Their Company, Held Down by Gravity”, in New York Times:
- This wasn’t so problematic at first: exhaustion actually suits Christopher Wheeldon’s “Klavier,” a dark exploration of the moment when opulence overripens to decadence.
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Translations
to ripen too much; to become overripe
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