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overripening

overripening is the present participle and gerund of overripen.

Meaning of overripen

Verb

overripen (third-person singular simple present overripens, present participle overripening, simple past and past participle overripened)

  1. To ripen too much; to become overripe.
    • 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.2007 February 15, Claudia La Rocco, “Dancers, and Their Company, Held Down by Gravity”, in New York Times

Questions about overripening

What is overripening the present participle and gerund of?
Overripening is the present participle and gerund of overripen.

Words near overripening in the dictionary

  1. overripe
  2. overripely
  3. overripen
  4. overripened
  5. overripeness
  6. overripening
  7. overripens
  8. overrise
  9. overrisen
  10. overrises
  11. overrising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overripening (page history and authors); overripen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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