raisin /ˈɹeɪzən/verb 8noun 1forms 3 verb8 •Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.The ultraripe grapes are usually dried in the sun for a few days so they can raisin and their sugars can be concentrated before they are crushed and pressed. — 2010 •To shrivel.If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify. — 2008 •To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.And shouldn't we be getting out of here before we get, y'know, raisined or something?' — 2008 •To cause to have wrinkles.She was a bony woman with hollow cheeks, her skin raisined by years of hard labor in the sun. — 2012 •To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.We soaked together in long baths until we raisined, skin pressed to skin . — 1998 •To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked. — 2005 •To add raisins to.Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread. — 1899 •To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.It was ground out solemnly in the academies, the University, the press, raisined with scholarly arguments quoted from the French physiocrats and positivists, in French, of course. — 2010 noun1 •A dried grape.Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins. — 2021 formsraisined · raisining · raisins
