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Deepening   /dˈipənɪŋ/  /dˈipnɪŋ/   Listen
Deepening

adjective
1.
Accumulating and becoming more intense.  Synonym: thickening.  "Felt a deepening love" , "The thickening dusk"
noun
1.
A process of becoming deeper and more profound.


Deepen

verb
(past & past part. deepened; pres. part. deepening)
1.
Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.  Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify.  "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her" , "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness" , "This event only deepened my convictions"
2.
Become more intense.  Synonym: intensify.  "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
3.
Make deeper.
4.
Become deeper in tone.  Synonym: change.  "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"





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"Deepening" Quotes from Famous Books



... bitter scowl deepening in his eyes. With an oath he turned abruptly and hurried in the opposite direction. The time had come to make ready for battle. A few minutes later, he was writing the note which created so much commotion in ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... of the dead? Does the imagination, which in alliance with the scientific reason achieves such conquests over nature, give way at times to morbid aberration, causing the chill and foggy loom of an after-life to obscure the honest face of the day? I can only say for myself that the deepening of the human consciousnesses due to the effort to close with the mystery of evil and death, and to extort therefrom a message of hope and comfort, seems to me to have been worth the achievement at almost any cost of ...
— Progress and History • Various
... the yellow or naked woods are passed, and the stubble-ridges "swallowed up in the fierceness and rage" of the rushing steeds; the indifference of those engaged in the headlong sport to the danger or even the death of their companions; the lengthening and deepening howl of the hounds as they near their prey; the fierce silence of the dying victim; and the fiercer shout of victory which announces to the echoes that the brush is won, and the glorious (or inglorious) day's work is over;—all this Somerville loves, ...
— The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase • Joseph Addison, John Gay, William Sommerville
... happy on the edge of a narrow bed, and then sleep and I were on bad terms that night. The lightning, growing stronger, showed my host's best trousers hanging against the whitewashed wall, and from the pigsty came indignant snorts in answer to the deepening moan of the thunder; but the crickets of the house sang after their fashion of the hearth and home, and those outside of the great joy of idleness in the summer fields. From a bit of hedge or old wall came now and ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker
... said this he took a sideway glance at Miss Zaidie. She dropped her eyelids and went on eating her bread and butter; but there was a little deepening of the flush on her cheeks which was to him as the first flush of sunrise to a ...
— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith


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