raisin
/ˈɹeɪzən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To shrivel.
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."
Etymology
From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: raysyn, raisin, racīmus, racēmus