An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
THICKENING
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Verb
thickening
present participle of thicken
Anagrams
• kitchening
Source: Wiktionary
Thick"en*ing, n.
Definition: Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
THICKEN
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
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