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Thickened   /θˈɪkənd/   Listen
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Thicken  v. t.  (past & past part. thickened; pres. part. thickening)  To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically:
(a)
To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
(b)
To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
(c)
To strengthen; to confirm. (Obs.) "And this may to thicken other proofs."
(d)
To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.



Thicken  v. i.  To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." "The press of people thickens to the court." "The combat thickens, like the storm that flies."






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"Thickened" Quotes from Famous Books



... delicious sort imaginable, made of a mold of rice filled in with eight different symbolic things that I don't know anything about, but they don't cut much part in the taste. In serving this dish we were first given a little bowl half full of a sauce thickened and looking like a milk sauce. It was really made of powdered almonds. Into this you put the pudding, and it is so good that I regretted all that had gone before, and I am going to learn how ...
— Letters from China and Japan • John Dewey

... shipped no more water, or very little, and we were not compelled to be on the look-out for squalls, which occurred every ten or fifteen minutes, with a violence that it would not do to trifle with. The weather thickened at these moments; and there were intervals of half an hour at a time, when we could not see a hundred yards from the boat, on account of the drizzling, misty rain that filled the atmosphere. There we sat, conversing sometimes of the past, sometimes of the ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

... buckskin. She shook it out. It fell with its face nearly parallel to the ground and alighted not more than a foot from the line, rebounding scarce more than an inch or so. Low exclamations arose from all around the thickened circle. ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough

... native herbs of woods and glades are more attractive than some of the most prized garden flowers. The greater part of these native flowers grow readily in cultivation, sometimes even in places which, in soil and exposure, are much unlike their native haunts. Many of them make thickened roots, and they may be safely transplanted at any time after the flowers have passed. To most persons the wild flowers are less known than many exotics that have smaller merit, and the extension of cultivation is constantly tending to annihilate them. Here, then, in the informal flower-border, ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey

... her with that loving, familiar, rocking motion of a woman who is soothing a baby at her breast and kissed my coat sleeve? She released my arm and, turning to the window, leaned her head upon its sill and shook with sobs. The dusk had thickened. As I returned to my seat by the stove I could dimly see her form against the light of the window. We sat in silence for ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller


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