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overripe

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1. overripe - Adjective

2. overripe - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Matured to excess.

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You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands. Nikita Khrushchev

It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not? George Orwell

First, we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States which will be the last bastion of capitalism. We will not have to attack. It will fall like an overripe fruit into our hands. Vladimir Lenin

She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropical vowels. Tom Robbins

Get overripe before partly ripe. Thai Proverb

Besides for having a serious aversion to all things banana, I just couldn’t see the appeal of a loaf made of overripe, mushy fruit. Source: Internet

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