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Another word for deepen

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Verb

  1. To make greater in intensity or severity

      1. To exasperate; annoy; vex
      2. To annoy or exasperate:
      3. To make worse or more troublesome:
      1. To make greater, as in cost, value, attractiveness, etc.; heighten; augment
      2. To improve electronically the quality or clarity of (a photograph or other image) as by means of a computer
      3. To improve or augment, especially in effectiveness, value, or attractiveness:
      1. To bring or come to a high or higher position; raise or rise
      2. To make or become larger, greater, stronger, brighter, etc.; increase; intensify
      3. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
      1. To become intense or more intense:
      2. To become intense or increase in intensity
      3. To increase the contrast of (a photographic image).
      1. (Intransitive) To become twice as big.
      2. To turn backward, as on one's tracks
      3. To make twice as much or twice as great
    See also:

    increase

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Another word for deepen

Verb

  1. To strengthen

      1. To increase the contrast of (a photographic image).
      2. To become intense or more intense:
      3. To become intense or increase in intensity
      1. To rise or increase in quantity or degree; intensify.
      2. To bring or come to a high or higher position; raise or rise
      3. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
      1. To work out or show the full form of (a contraction, mathematical equation, etc.)
      2. (Mathematics) To write (a quantity) as a sum of terms in an extended form.
      3. To become expanded; spread out, unfold, enlarge, etc.
      1. To present; offer:
      2. To be or become long, large, or comprehensive:
      3. To be extended
    See also:

    develop

    increase

    intensify

  2. To make deeper

    See also:

    dig

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Sentence Examples

  • She waited until she heard his breathing deepen and then rose.

  • She glanced up quickly, feeling the color deepen in her face.

  • The Federal government undertook to deepen the channel by dredging and by making two dams and two locks between the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway bridge in St Paul and the Washington Avenue bridge in Minneapolis - a distance of 11 .

  • Smith has, however, still stronger arguments, which he states as follows: " Throughout the entire line of the old bridge, the bed of the river was found to contain ancient wooden piles; and when these piles, subsequently to the erection of the new bridge, were pulled up to deepen the channel of the river, many thousands of Roman coins, with abundance of broken Roman tiles and pottery, were discovered, and immediately beneath some of the central piles brass medallions of Aurelius, Faustina and Commodus.

  • The destruction of the grasses on the hillsides by overgrazing in recent years has increased the flooding by temporary streams, and consequently has tended to deepen and increase the gulleys and channels of the mountains and valleys.

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