'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
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]
Synonyms of 'thickening'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adhesiveness,
- clabbering,
- clamminess,
- clotting,
- coagulation,
- colloidality,
- concretion,
- congealment,
- congelation,
- curdling,
- doughiness,
- gelatination,
- gelatinity,
- gelatinization,
- gelatinousness,
- gelling,
- gluelikeness,
- gluiness,
- glutinosity,
- glutinousness,
- gumlikeness,
- gumminess,
- heaviness,
- incrassation,
- inspissation,
- jellification,
- jelling,
- jellying,
- jellylikeness,
- lentor,
- mucilaginousness,
- pastiness,
- ropiness,
- setting,
- slabbiness,
- sliminess,
- spissitude,
- stickiness,
- stodginess,
- stringiness,
- syrupiness,
- tackiness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- thickness,
- toughness,
- treacliness,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- viscousness