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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
deepening
    adj 1: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening
           gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk"
           [syn: deepening(a), thickening(a)]
    n 1: a process of becoming deeper and more profound

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deepen \Deep"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deepened; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Deepening.]
   1. To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink
      lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
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            It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber.
                                                  --Addison.
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   2. To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event
      deepened the prevailing gloom.
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            You must deepen your colors.          --Peacham.
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   3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree;
      as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
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   4. To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones
      of an organ.
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            Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. --Pope.
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Thesaurus Results for Deepening:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, amplification, annoyance, augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deliberate aggravation, depression, deterioration, digging, drilling, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation, excavation, explosion, heating-up, heightening, increase, information explosion, intensification, irritation, lowering, magnification, mining, pickup, population explosion, probing, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement, sharpening, sinkage, sinking, souring, speedup, step-up, strengthening, tightening, tunneling, worsening
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