thicken, inspissate
(verb) become thick or thicker; “The sauce thickened”; “The egg yolk will inspissate”
thicken, inspissate
(verb) make thick or thicker; “Thicken the sauce”; “inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch”
thicken, inspissate
(verb) make viscous or dense; “thicken the sauce by adding flour”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
thicken (third-person singular simple present thickens, present participle thickening, simple past and past participle thickened)
(transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
(transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
(intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
(intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
(transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
(transitive) To make more frequent.
• (make wider): broaden, enwiden; see also widen
• (make more viscous): condense, engross, inspissate; see also thicken
• (become wider): widen
• (become more viscous): inspissate
• (strengthen): build up, reinforce; see also strengthen
• (make more frequent)
• Chetnik, Kitchen, chetnik, ethnick, kitchen
Source: Wiktionary
Thick"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Thickening.]
Definition: To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: -- (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.] And this may to thicken other proofs. Shak.
(d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
Thick"en, v. i.
Definition: To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak. The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
