'Deepening' definitions:
Definition of 'deepening'
From: WordNet
adjective
Accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: deepening(a), thickening(a)]
noun
A process of becoming deeper and more profound
Definition of 'Deepening'
From: GCIDE
- Deepen \Deep"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deepened; p. pr. & vb. n. Deepening.]
- 1. To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. [1913 Webster]
- It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. [1913 Webster]
- You must deepen your colors. --Peacham. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. [1913 Webster]
- Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deepening'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- aggravation,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- augmentation,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- contentiousness,
- deliberate aggravation,
- depression,
- deterioration,
- digging,
- drilling,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- exasperation,
- excavation,
- explosion,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- increase,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- irritation,
- lowering,
- magnification,
- mining,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- probing,
- provocation,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- sharpening,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- souring,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- tightening,
- tunneling,
- worsening