(rīp) adjective
1. Grown to maturity and fit for food, as fruit or grain.
2. Brought by keeping and care to a condition for use, as wine.
3. Fully developed; matured.
4. In full readiness to do or try; prepared; ready: The men are ripe for mutiny.
5. Fit; opportune: The times are ripe for war.
6. Resembling ripe fruit; rosy; luscious.
7. Surg. Ready for an operation of removal or opening, as an appendix or an abscess. [OE rīpe ready for reaping]
—ripe′ly adverb
—ripe′ness noun Synonyms: complete, consummate, finished, fit, mature, matured, mellow, perfect, perfected, ready, seasoned. Antonyms: budding, callow, crude, green, immature, imperfect, sour, undeveloped.

(rīp) v.t. riped, rip·ing Scot. & Brit. Dial.
1. To cleanse.
2. To examine thoroughly.
3. To search.