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Thickening   /θˈɪkənɪŋ/  /θˈɪknɪŋ/   Listen
Thickening

noun
1.
Any material used to thicken.  Synonym: thickener.
2.
Any thickened enlargement.  Synonyms: knob, node.
3.
The act of thickening.  Synonym: inspissation.
adjective
1.
Accumulating and becoming more intense.  Synonym: deepening.  "Felt a deepening love" , "The thickening dusk"
2.
Becoming more intricate or complex.



Thicken

verb
(past & past part. thickened; pres. part. thickening)
1.
Make thick or thicker.  Synonym: inspissate.  "Inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
2.
Become thick or thicker.  Synonym: inspissate.  "The egg yolk will inspissate"
3.
Make viscous or dense.  Synonym: inspissate.



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"Thickening" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Count's fine prick, making him as eager as the Egerton to be into her beautiful arsehole. The Benson conducted it to the divine entrance of that rapture-giving receptacle, which he entered at first with little difficulty, but as the thickening of his prick by its further entrance began to stretch the tender folds between our two pricks, the Egerton cried out for a momentary pause, as it was producing the strange sensation that one prick alone produces in the earlier stage of ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous

... was thickening with dusky motes. Emeline fancied that living dark atoms were pressing down upon ...
— The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton; newspaper topics, morsels of Addison and Bacon, Latin verbs, geometry, entomology, and chemistry; reviews and metaphysics, all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fast-thickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... his errand. Why did his heart throb as he hurried along the streets? Why did his hand tremble as he raised the knocker at the well known door. Roderick's instincts were true as are ever those of single minded men. A shadow had been on him for weeks, and he knew that it was now thickening into darkness. Spite of himself, a presentiment possessed his soul that whereas his military prospect was brightening, his career advancing, and the success of his cause was being every day more assured, his personal fate was waning, and the dearest hopes of his heart were ...
— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance

... It was not a climax. Greater winds have blown; greater seas have come tumbling in on the black rocks of Out-of-the-Way. The point is this, Cobden says, that the wind was rising, the sea working up, the ice running in, the fog spreading, thickening, obscuring the way to harbor. The imagination of the beholder was subtly stimulated to conceive the ultimate worst of that which might impend, which is the ...
— Harbor Tales Down North - With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. • Norman Duncan


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