Deepen meaning

dē'pən
To make or become deep or deeper.
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To make or become deep or deeper.
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To make deep or deeper.

They deepened the well by 200 feet.

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To make darker or more intense; to darken.

The event deepened the prevailing gloom.

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To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree.

News of her death deepened my sorrow.

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To make lower in tone.

The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.

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(intransitive) To become deeper.

The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.

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(intransitive) To become darker or more intense.

The crisis deepened in the following weeks.

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(intransitive) To become lower in tone.

His voice deepened with age.

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Origin of deepen

From deep +‎ -en

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.

  • 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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