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Thicken   /θˈɪkən/   Listen
Thicken

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



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"Thicken" Quotes from Famous Books



... through what ways soever he was to pass[1],' furnished my enemies with weapons which have been used to my undoing. For this last year I have suffered alternate hopes and fears. Whether my heart is sick of suspence, or the clouds of mischance really thicken around me, I can scarcely ascertain, but my meditations grow more gloomy, and I believe myself doomed to an obscure life of little usefulness to others, and less enjoyment to myself. Among my privations I must rank ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

... stalks are quite soft, then pulp them through a sieve, and strain the water to it, which must be put back in the pot; put into it a chicken cut up, with the tops of asparagus which had been laid by, boil it until these last articles are sufficiently done, thicken with flour, butter and milk, and serve ...
— The Virginia Housewife • Mary Randolph

... Thicken man, build the barn, Thinner man, spool the yarn, Longen man, stir the brew, Gowden man, make a shoe, Littlen man, all ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various

... and girls are likely to hit their fingers cracking walnuts, has developed a walnut with a very thin shell, so thin in fact that the birds can break through it and help themselves to the meat. Now he has to thicken the shell again. ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... discoveries. Our old friend was a peasant, the child of peasant farmers. She would always remain a peasant; and yet her daughter was a Parisian, and lived in a bonbonniere. She was also married; but that only served to thicken the web of mystery enshrouding her. How could a daughter of a peasant, brought up as a peasant, who had lived here, a tiller of the fields till her nineteenth year, suddenly be transformed into a woman of the Parisian world, gain the position ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd


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