raisin

1. (intransitive) Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.Examples: "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."intransitive

2. (transitive) To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.Examples: "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."transitive

3. (transitive) To add raisins to.Examples: "Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread."; "Her nicest one is sweetened with sugar, then spiced, buttered, egged, and raisined, to be baked for a mere hour and a half because the proportion of meal to milk is so small that the result is more like a thickened custard than a hasty pudding."; "He went then to each customer he had and gave them each a large, sweet, raisined loaf of caky bread."transitive

4. (by extension, transitive) To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.Examples: "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."; "While Mother raisined our oatmeal with niacin tablets and wheatgermed our milk, Opal baked us sugar cakes and sugar cookies, deep-fried us sugar doughnuts."; "I find it helpful to imagine the world as a fullness of varying density, not as a vacuum raisined with corpuscles but as a plenum instead."broadlytransitive

5. (ambitransitive) To shrivel.Examples: "If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify."; "Beneath a raisined basketball, among nail polish, dead spiders and other junk, I found a faded photograph of Hannah with cropped, spiky red hair and brilliant purple eye shadow painted all the way to her eyebrows."; "My raisined heart is shrinking."ambitransitive

6. (transitive) To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.Examples: "Out in the bean field Shinto was being horribly bullied by horse-flies, and armed with that reflective strip of marker post– still an invaluable humane goad when the sun was in the right position– I raisined four against his loins. Oddly, he seemed to understand why I kept hitting him."; "And shouldn't we be getting out of here before we get, y'know, raisined or something?'"; "I haven't seen him since about a week before you got raisined, but Lan saw him just before."transitive