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thickening 音标拼音: [θ'ɪkənɪŋ] [θ'ɪknɪŋ] n. 使厚,变厚,厚的部分 使厚,变厚,厚的部分 thickening adj 1: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk" [synonym: {deepening(a)}, {thickening(a)}] 2: becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot" n 1: any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" [synonym: {thickening}, {thickener}] 2: any thickened enlargement [synonym: {node}, {knob}, {thickening}] 3: the act of thickening [synonym: {thickening}, {inspissation}] Thickening \Thick"en*ing\, n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. [1913 Webster] Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thickened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thickening}.] To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. [1913 Webster] (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. [1913 Webster] (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And this may to thicken other proofs. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows. [1913 Webster] 50 Moby Thesaurus words for "thickening":
adhesiveness, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, colloidality, concretion, congealment, congelation, curdling, doughiness, gelatination, gelatinity, gelatinization, gelatinousness, gelling, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, gumlikeness, gumminess, heaviness, incrassation, inspissation, jellification, jelling, jellying, jellylikeness, lentor, mucilaginousness, pastiness, ropiness, setting, slabbiness, sliminess, spissitude, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickness, toughness, treacliness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness
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