'Thickening' definitions:

Definition of 'thickening'

From: WordNet
adjective
Accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: deepening(a), thickening(a)]
adjective
Becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"
noun
Any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" [syn: thickening, thickener]
noun
Any thickened enlargement [syn: node, knob, thickening]
noun
The act of thickening [syn: thickening, inspissation]

Definition of 'Thickening'

From: GCIDE
  • Thickening \Thick"en*ing\, n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Thickening'

From: GCIDE
  • Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Thickening.] To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. [1913 Webster] (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. [1913 Webster] (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • And this may to thicken other proofs. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows. [1913 Webster]

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