Aged
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Old. Undergone the effects of time, improving as a result.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
Part of speech: preposition
Definition: Having the age of.
Example sentence: Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.
Ripe
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.Ready for action or effect; prepared.Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.Intoxicated.Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To ripen or mature
Example sentence: Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.