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vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make or render rich or richer. 2 (context intransitive English) To become rich or richer; become superior in quality, condition or effectiveness. 3 (context intransitive of a colour English) To gain richness; become heightened or intensified in brilliancy.

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Olivio di Giudea came on him an instant later, his words still whispering in the breathless air and the candlelight richening as it was doubled on the stone and the face of what lay on that stone.

Carmen had left the table, and the room was richening with the comfortable aromas of coffee and liqueur, brandy and cigars, Sardon was still riding his hobbyhorse.

Deep, deep, slow-thick into the clench of honey, clovery oils, nipples pebbled, lift-clamp of thigh, arythmic flesh-clap fading into tempo reattained, held long and longer and longest, then beginning quivorous hesitation at the end of deepening, richening beat, a shifting of her, mouth agape, furnace breath, tongue curl, grit of tooth against tooth, hands then cup and pull the rubberous buttocky pumping, her bellows breath whistling exploding the words against my mouth-"Love you.

While Posleen trenches were being filled with alien bodies, more than a few German soldiers richened the manure.

The light deepened, richened, became so intense that it brought tears to my eyes, and then it became even more brilliant.