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Adjective thickening has 2 senses
- deepening, gathering, thickening - accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk"
Antonym: moderating (indirect, via intensifying)
- thickening - becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"
Antonym: simple (indirect, via complex)
Noun thickening has 3 senses
- thickening, thickener - any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening"
--1 is a kind of material, stuff
- node, knob, thickening - any thickened enlargement
--2 is a kind of convex shape, convexity
- thickening, inspissation - the act of thickening
--3 is a kind of condensing, condensation
Verb thicken has 3 senses
- thicken, inspissate - make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: thin
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- thicken, inspissate - become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"
--2 is one way to change state, turn
Antonyms: thin
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- thicken, inspissate - make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour"
--3 is one way to change integrity
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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