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Deepening   /dˈipənɪŋ/  /dˈipnɪŋ/   Listen
Deepening

adjective
1.
Accumulating and becoming more intense.  Synonym: thickening.  "Felt a deepening love" , "The thickening dusk"
noun
1.
A process of becoming deeper and more profound.


Deepen

verb
(past & past part. deepened; pres. part. deepening)
1.
Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.  Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify.  "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her" , "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness" , "This event only deepened my convictions"
2.
Become more intense.  Synonym: intensify.  "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
3.
Make deeper.
4.
Become deeper in tone.  Synonym: change.  "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"





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"Deepening" Quotes from Famous Books



... punishment upon the people in the exile. The prophecy runs on into apocalyptic like that of the book of Daniel. The contact with the outside world makes possible a phase of literature such as that to which the books of Job and Ecclesiastes belong. The deepening of the inner life gave the world the lyric of the Psalms, some of which are credibly assigned to a period so late ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore
... fingers granted unworthy; if we handled It with our teeth or lips, and passed It on to our inwards, why do we not also in faith so treat the members of his saints for our defence, their worship, and the deepening of our memory of them, and acquire, so far as opportunity allows, what we are to keep with ...
— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson
... vehicle which bore him made its appearance on the esplanade without the gates of the prison, a deep hum of satisfaction ran through the assembled concourse, rising and deepening gradually into a savage howl like ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 • Various
... life will be satisfied with daily joy.'" O king, thou wouldst have answered foolishly. The higher the soul climbs in joy the more it sees of joy, and when it sees the most, it perishes. Vast capabilities of joy open round it; it craves for all it presages; desire for more deepening with every attainment. And then the body intervenes. Age, sickness, decay, forbid attainment. Life is inadequate to joy. What have the gods done? It cannot be their malice, no, nor carelessness; but—to let ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... through the deepening darkness lumbered the yellow van, until it seemed to the unhappy children that it must be nearly morning. At last, however, the team turned from the highroad and stopped beside a little stream. The woman ...
— The Italian Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins


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