raisin

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.

noun

1. A dried grape.
   Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins. 2021-07-18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verb

1. (intransitive) Of grapes: 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. 2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir