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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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