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raisin^¹

/ˈɹeɪzən/
/ˈɹeɪzɪn/
/ˈɹiːzən/ obsolete

Rhymes with -eɪzən

Where it comes from

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.

noun raisins

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

verb raisins · raisining · raisined

intransitive Of fruit: to dry out; to become like 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.
transitive To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined. We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.
transitive 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.
broadly, transitive 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.
ambitransitive To shrivel. If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.
transitive To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone. 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.
transitive To cause to have wrinkles. She was a bony woman with hollow cheeks, her skin raisined by years of hard labor in the sun.
intransitive To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled. We soaked together in long baths until we raisined, skin pressed to skin .

Raisin^²

proper noun Raisins

A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: grape, oatmeal, cinnamon, dry, grapes, raisinet, raisin black, racemation, resinata, raspice, retsina wine, rennet, rondo, reinette, grenache, raspberry

Translations

Every language

noun dried grape

Español	pasa, pansa, pasita, acebibe, uva pasa, uva pansida
한국어	건포도 geonpodo
日本語	レーズン rēzun, 干し葡萄 hoshibudō
中文	葡萄乾 /葡萄干 pútáogān
हिन्दी	किशमिश kiśmiś, मुनक्का munakkā, दाख dākh
Português	uva passa, uva-passa, passa
Français	raisin sec
Deutsch	Rosine
Italiano	uvetta, uva passa, uva secca
Ελληνικά	σταφίδα stafída
Română	stafidă
Русский	изю́м izjúm, изю́мина izjúmina
Tiếng Việt	nho khô
العربية	زَبِيب zabīb, زَبِيبَة zabība
עברית	צימוק \ צִמּוּק tsimuk

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@misc{raisin_2026,
  title = {raisin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/raisin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}