thickening, deepening(a)
(adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense; “the deepening gloom”; “felt a deepening love”; “the thickening dusk”
thickening
(adjective) becoming more intricate or complex; “a thickening plot”
thickening, inspissation
(noun) the act of thickening
node, knob, thickening
(noun) any thickened enlargement
thickening, thickener
(noun) any material used to thicken; “starch is used in cooking as a thickening”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
thickening (countable and uncountable, plural thickenings)
The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
A thickened part of a structure.
thickening
present participle of thicken
• kitchening
Source: Wiktionary
Thick"en*ing, n.
Definition: Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
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
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
