Meaning

A dried grape..

Definitions by Sense

1. A dried grape.
2. (intransitive) Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
3. (transitive) To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.
4. (transitive) To add raisins to.
5. (by extension, transitive) To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.
6. (ambitransitive) To shrivel.
7. (transitive) To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.
8. (transitive) To cause to have wrinkles.

Example Sentences

Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.

Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.

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.

Too much water and the taste would be too thin. Too little and the grapes would raisin.

We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.

The 12-year-old Redbreast is the most easily found and shows single pot still at its most defiant: oily and rich with stewed plums, light leather, creme caramel and a dense, raisined palate where the tongue tries to cleave through the white peaches.

Another liquid—perhaps honey, a berry juice, a raisined or herbal wine—could be poured into the large opening and automatically fed into the interior of the vessel.

Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread.

Word Forms

• raisins
• raisining
• raisined

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When Should You Use Raisin?

Use raisin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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