Deepen
['diːp(ə)n] or ['dipən]
Definition
(verb.) become deeper in tone; 'His voice began to change when he was 12 years old'; 'Her voice deepened when she whispered the password'.
(verb.) make deeper; 'They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it'.
Typed by Jennifer--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
(v. t.) To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.
(v. t.) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
(v. t.) To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.
(v. i.) To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.
Typist: Mag
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Make deeper, increase the depth of.[2]. Make darker, make more intense.[3]. Reduce to a lower tone, make more grave.
v. n. Grow deeper, become deeper.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Did the cheque to Trenor explain the mystery or deepen it? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They all tend to deepen the impression upon my mind that the Cunninghams, father and son, had written this letter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He rose with a start, his ingenuous face looking as though it had been dipped in crimson: even the reddish tint in his beard seemed to deepen. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Does it fit into his more direct acquaintance so as to increase its efficacy and deepen its meaning? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What Rosamond had written to him would probably deepen the painful impressions of the evening. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We may note (1) The manner in which the objection of Adeimantus here, is designed to draw out and deepen the argument of Socrates. Plato. The Republic.
- He sat looking at her, and did not rise to pay her any compliments, leaving that to others, now that his admiration was deepened. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The desolate feeling with which I went abroad, deepened and widened hourly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Its eyes seemed to look down on her with a reproach that deepened as she looked. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- On the banks of the river Saone it was wet, depressing, solitary; and the night deepened fast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Her loneliness deepened her desire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The expression in the forehead, which had so particularly attracted his notice, and which was now immovable, had deepened into one of pain and horror. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As the wet twilight deepened, I stopped in a solitary bridle-path, which I had been pursuing an hour or more. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- From the close of 1915 onwards Russia was a source of deepening anxiety to her Western allies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I felt compassion for him,' said Louisa, her colour deepening, 'and I wished to know what he was going to do, and wished to offer him assistance. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And there was not only the actual debt; there was the certainty that in his present position he must go on deepening it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But it is better than he expected after all, being no explosion of the mine below him or deepening of the pit into which he has fallen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Later this was remedied, by deepening the channel and increasing the number of vessels suitable to its navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The colour of Mr. George's face rather deepens as he replies, Why no. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Literature refines, science deepens, various devices extend it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You observe that the scratch on that table is slight at one side, but deepens in the direction of the bedroom door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green and is darker in the male than in the female. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Typist: Moira