Deepening

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber.
                                                    --Addison.
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     2. To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event
        deepened the prevailing gloom.
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              You must deepen your colors.          --Peacham.
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     3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree;
        as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
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     4. To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones
        of an organ.
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              Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deepening
       adj : accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening
             gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering
             darkness"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: {deepening(a)},
             {gathering(a)}, {thickening(a)}]
       n : a process of becoming deeper and more profound

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "deepening":
     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