(superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
(superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
(superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
(superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
(superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
(superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
(superl.) Intoxicated.
(v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
(v. t.) To mature; to ripen.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1200 examinations of sonographical demonstrable placental ripeness were done in 552 pregnant women.
(2) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
(3) President Hassan Rouhani , who is visiting New York to speak at the UN general assembly next week, said at a meeting with journalists and media executives on Friday that “conditions were ripe” for his administration to start implementing the agreement, struck in Vienna in July, by the end of the year.
(4) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(5) 75 Patients were treated with Prostaglandin-F2 alpha-gel intracervical to ripe the cervix prior to first trimester abortion.
(6) These demographic realities define a policy issue ripe for study.
(7) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(8) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(9) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
(10) Some on the left who want Brexit say that the time is not yet ripe.
(11) We think that, after a rather premature condemnation, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and a reevaluation of the ureterosigmoidostomy.
(12) The oogonia pass through seven maturation stages to form the ripe ova.
(13) Total lipid constituted 15% of the dry wt of ripe eggs, 70% of the total lipid being polar lipid with phosphatidylcholine (PC) accounting for almost 90% of the polar lipid.
(14) A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
(15) Lamicel produced a cervical dilatation and ripeness equal to the syntetic tent without MgSO4.
(16) "The issue is ripe in our country, given the experiences that we know of elsewhere," he added.
(17) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(18) I think the time is ripe to push these issues into London councils and the London Assembly .
(19) Music in hospitals, he argues, is an area ripe for further exploration.
(20) The relationship between disability in activities of daily living and age-related impairment of physical performance is especially ripe for study.
Suppurated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Suppurate
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(2) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(3) The current medical management of children with chronic suppurative otitis media without cholesteatoma unresponsive to local treatment and oral antibiotics is intravenous antibiotic therapy in the hospital setting.
(4) Acute cholecystitis and suppurative cholangitis occur in 44% of age category 5, compared to 14-24% in other age categories.
(5) In view of the severe course seen in the presence of any suppurated pancreatic necrosis, it was felt to be of value to treat two patients by the adjuvant use of a new antiseptic tauroline, administered locally and, where appropriate, systemically.
(6) Ovaries and uteri, which become atrophic and sustained chronic suppurative inflammation in the treatment phase, showed reduction of inflammatory reaction and disappearance of suppuration after withdrawal, and endometrial regeneration occurred with luteal cells seen in the ovaries.
(7) Moribund animals exhibited a suppurative necrotizing bronchopneumonia and necrotizing tracheitis.
(8) We isolated a strain of P. penneri from the pus of a patient with suppurative otitis media and an epidural abscess on June 10 and 15, 1989.
(9) The clinical symptoms and signs were somewhat atypical and included acute suppurative cellulitis in the floor of the mouth plus localized periodontitis involving 36.
(10) There were higher mean temperatures at sites exhibiting or not exhibiting plaque (35.0, 34.5 degrees C), redness (34.9, 34.6), bleeding on probing (35.1, 34.7) and suppuration (35.4, 34.8).
(11) The authors discuss the use of donor blood after isolated exposure to X-rays in the complex treatment of 65 patients with various suppurative diseases.
(12) non-suppurative hepatic amoebiasis, or in asymptomatic Entamoeba histolytica cyst passers.
(13) Ultrasonography was conducted in 66 patients with postinjection infiltrations, abscesses, postoperative scar suppurations, mastitis and other inflammatory conditions.
(14) Amikacin treatment of 8 patients with grave diseases as well as the successful local administration of amikacin based on the therapy of 55 cases of surgical suppurations is reported.
(15) Chronic suppurative otitis media often requires hospitalization and intravenous antimicrobial therapy with agents effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(16) Stressed are the diagnostic criteria of nonresponsiveness to the usual methods of treatment, continued suppuration, and the continuing reformation of granulation tissue in the floor of the external auditory canal.
(17) The complexity of the treatment of acute suppurative pulmonary diseases has been aggravated recently by the growth of microbial resistance to antibiotics and enhancement of the allergy incidence among the population.
(18) Clinical measurements which have failed to exhibit association with episodic attachment loss include gingival redness, bleeding on probing, suppuration, supragingival plaque, and darkfield microscopic bacterial counts.
(19) Acute suppurative streptococcal pharyngitis remains a significant pediatric problem, accounting for much time lost from both school and play.
(20) In the case of the suppurative reaction, pus drained along a root surface, destroying the periodontal ligament and interradicular bone until it emerged at the gingival sulcus.