Deepened
[di:pənd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Deepen
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Examples
- 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 night deepened. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was now on the edge of dark; candles were not yet brought in; both, as twilight deepened, grew meditative and silent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The expression of melancholy deepened on her face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His complexion deepened. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Her look deepened meditatively. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- At sight of Lily the glow deepened to an embarrassed red, and she said with a slight laugh: Did you see my visitor? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The matter-of-course tone of Mrs. Trenor's greeting deepened her irritation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The groove thus formed may be deepened by another acid solution. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- His smile deepened as he added with increasing assurance: But you must let me take you to the station. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Dorothea sat almost motionless in her meditative struggle, while the evening slowly deepened into night. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The dark circles deepened, the lips quivered and contracted, and she became insensible once more. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But suddenly her look changed and deepened inscrutably. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Every line in his face deepened as he said it, and put in its affecting evidence of the suffering he had undergone. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The young man's blush deepened. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Her eyes glittered, her colour was deepened on cheek and lip. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Gradually, an unhappy shadow fell upon her beauty, and deepened every day. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Then this material gradually is surcharged and deepened through communicated knowledge or information. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Her colour deepened--she still had the art of blushing at the right time--but she took the suggestion as lightly as it was made. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The disasters deepened as Regulus spoke. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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