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overripen

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ ripen.

Verb

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

  1. 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[1]:
      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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