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Thickening   /θˈɪkənɪŋ/  /θˈɪknɪŋ/   Listen
Thickening

noun
1.
Any material used to thicken.  Synonym: thickener.
2.
Any thickened enlargement.  Synonyms: knob, node.
3.
The act of thickening.  Synonym: inspissation.
adjective
1.
Accumulating and becoming more intense.  Synonym: deepening.  "Felt a deepening love" , "The thickening dusk"
2.
Becoming more intricate or complex.



Thicken

verb
(past & past part. thickened; pres. part. thickening)
1.
Make thick or thicker.  Synonym: inspissate.  "Inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
2.
Become thick or thicker.  Synonym: inspissate.  "The egg yolk will inspissate"
3.
Make viscous or dense.  Synonym: inspissate.



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"Thickening" Quotes from Famous Books



... rounded stacks of glass foundries and potteries. This was obviously a chimney, and from its mouth at that moment was emerging a slight column of smoke which threw back curiously coloured reflections, blue, and yellow, and red, to the moonlight which fell on its thickening spirals. ...
— The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher

... caseation[obs3]; solidation[obs3], solidification; consolidation; concretion, coagulation; petrification &c. (hardening) 323; crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation[obs3]; gelation, thickening &c. v. indivisibility, indiscerptibility[obs3], insolubility, indissolvableness. solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete, conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage; casein, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus • Peter Mark Roget

... prejudices, useful in practice, but still narrownesses of the mind. The absolute in detail is absurd and contradictory. All political, religious, aesthetic, or literary parties are protuberances, misgrowths of thought. Every special belief represents a stiffening and thickening of thought; a stiffening, however, which is necessary in its time and place. Our monad, in its thinking capacity, overleaps the boundaries of time and space and of its own historical surroundings; but in its individual capacity, and for ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... broth is made by thickening this with cornstarch or arrowroot, cooking for ten minutes and then adding three ounces of milk, or one ounce and a half of thin cream, to ...
— The Care and Feeding of Children - A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses • L. Emmett Holt

... will allow," said the old gentleman, as distinctly as his long white moustache and an apparent absence of teeth behind it would let him. John Munt had eagerly abandoned the seat he was keeping at Mrs. Brinkley's side, and had launched himself into the thickening crowd. The old gentleman, who was lank and tall, folded himself down into it, He continued as tranquilly as if seated quite alone with Mrs. Brinkley, and not minding that his voice, with the senile crow in it, made itself heard ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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