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[ UK /ˌə‍ʊvəɹˈa‍ɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈoʊvɝˈɹaɪp/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. too ripe and beginning to turn soft

How To Use overripe In A Sentence

  • They're compelling red wines of pipe-organ depth and power without excessive alcohol or overripeness. Two Worlds of Argentine Wines
  • The largest shift in molecular weight occurred during the melting stage, but matrix glycans remained at moderately high molecular weight even in overripe fruit, and were not depolymerized to small size.
  • All of which suggests that, just as either the overripeness or the rawness of what you serve can speak to your cultivation, to your acquired level of artistry, so cruelty can exhibit your refinement. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
  • He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
  • For example, you can make a simple but tasty sauce from overripe cherry tomatoes, onions and garlic.
  • Alternatively, fruits were harvested at the ripe stage and left to overripen for 2 d at 21°C on the laboratory bench.
  • The opulence of such clergy as were close to the court expressed itself in the overripe late Gothic of the great collegiate churches at Stirling, Linlithgow, Rosslyn, and Perth.
  • One verb applies to mushy, gelatinous, overripe, and overcooked things, of which brains, bananas, and avocados might be examples.
  • But there was a sort of bruised quality about her, like an overripe banana, sticky sweet and pulpy. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
  • One overzealous man even tried to sell him some overripe tomatoes once, and it took only one glare to send the man scurrying on his way.
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