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deepen
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make deep or deeper 2 To make darker or more intense; to darken 3 To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree 4 To make lower in tone 5 (context intransitive English) To become deeper 6 (context intransitive English) To become darker ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from deep (adj.) + -en (1). Related: Deepened ; deepening . The earlier verb had been simply deep , from Old English diepan .\n
Usage examples of deepen.
The clouds paled, turned rosy for a moment with the afterglow, then deepened into purple gloom.
The guests at the Albergo Monte Gazza peered at one another over dinner through a gradually deepening gloom, enlivened by occasional lurches towards complete darkness.
Her voice trailed off and Arra scowled out at the road, her frown deepening slightly at each slap of the windshield wipers.
As the evening deepened the quaintest noises began on every hand--noises so strange and bewildering that as I cowered down with my teeth chattering, and stared hard into the impenetrable, they could be likened to nothing but the crying of all the souls of dead things since the beginning.
At 1830 a blinker message from Chikuma served further to deepen the gloom in Nagara.
Dusk was deepening into night as a low, sprawling, palisaded building that could only be the caravanserai came into view ahead.
But the modern view, with its deepening insistence upon individuality and upon the significance of its uniqueness, steadily intensifies the value of freedom, until at last we begin to see liberty as the very substance of life, that indeed it is life, and that only the dead things, the choiceless things, live in absolute obedience to law.
He wore a chest-hugging, bronze T-shirt, that deepened the golden highlights in his eyes, black jeans that cleaved his male assets in all the right places.
Mr Cupples deepened both his annoyance and his grief at the membership of Robert Bruce.
Torches held by grinning brass gargoyles cast shadows that deepened the anguish in hopeless faces and darkened the evil glittering in the eyes of the legion of monsters that brought mankind to its knees.
The deep blue color darkened, deepened until he could see the need pulsing in her.
The kiss deepened with mutual urgency, and he slid his hands upward, stopping just under the swell of her breasts before he started another downward slide.
In profile, his frown deepened as he read her question on his translator.
In this way we make ourselves as vulnerable and receptive as possible to a renewed and deepened experience of the way our bodily being bodies forth the love that utters our feelings into being.
In yielding to this reverie, renewed and deepened desires to be one awakens within them.