deepen

deep·en

to make or become deep or deeper

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deepen

tr. & intr.v.

deep·ened, deep·en·ing, deep·ens

To make or become deep or deeper.

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present deepens, present participle deepening, simple past and past participle deepened)

To make deep or deeper
They deepened the well by 200 feet.
To make darker or more intense; to darken
The event deepened the prevailing gloom.
To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
News of her death deepened my sorrow.
To make lower in tone
The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.
(intransitive) To become deeper
The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.
(intransitive) To become darker or more intense
The crisis deepened in the following weeks.
(intransitive) To become lower in tone
His voice deepened with age.

Origin

From deep +‎ -en

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She waited until she heard his breathing deepen and then rose.
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 .
She glanced up quickly, feeling the color deepen in her face.
To deepen the channel over the bar at Durban so that steamers might enter the harbour was the cause of labour and expenditure for many years.
He undoubtedly did much to deepen and liberalize Christian thought in England, his influence being specially marked in the school of F.

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