raisining

Verb

raisin (third-person singular simple present raisins, present participle raisining, simple past and past participle raisined)

1. (intransitive) Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
   • Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir
2. (transitive) To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.
   • We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.2005, Alan King, Matzo Balls for Breakfast, page 183
3. (transitive) To add raisins to.
   • Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread.1899, Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, volume 9, number 2, page 150
4. (broadly, transitive) To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.
   • It was ground out solemnly in the academies, the University, the press, raisined with scholarly arguments quoted from the French physiocrats and positivists, in French, of course.2010, Anita Brenner, The Wind that Swept Mexico
5. (ambitransitive) To shrivel.
   • If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.2008, Trey Ellis, Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood
6. (transitive) To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.
   • Out in the bean field Shinto was being horribly bullied by horse-flies, and armed with that reflective strip of marker post– still an invaluable humane goad when the sun was in the right position– I raisined four against his loins. Oddly, he seemed to understand why I kept hitting him.2005, Tim Moore, Spanish Steps, page 196

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