<noun.substance> starch is used in cooking as a thickening
any thickened enlargement
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the act of thickening
<noun.act> [ adj ]
accumulating and becoming more intense
<adj.all> the deepening gloom felt a deepening love the thickening dusk
becoming more intricate or complex
<adj.all> a thickening plot
Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thickened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thickening}.] To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.]
And this may to thicken other proofs. --Shak. (d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
Thickening \Thick"en*ing\, n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
It involves a thickening and scaling of the skin, usually in the areas of the scalp, elbows, knees, back and buttocks.
Reagan also came into office promising to prune the thickening vines of the federal bureaucracy.
Faced with thickening ice, plunging temperatures and the imminent departure of two Soviet icebreakers, rescuers late Thursday made a last-ditch effort to free two whales threatened again by the arctic icepack.
Mauro, who said the exposure occurred when he ripped out old insulation, found in 1981 that he had thickening of his chest walls and calcification of his diaphragm.
Time is running out for three California gray whales trapped in the thickening ice of the Arctic Ocean, and the discussion Saturday was turning from rescue to humane destruction.
The use of the antibody reduced inner wall thickening by 40%.
'There's a certain amount of native pride,' he says, the Irish brogue thickening a little.
Defense lawyers for Marcos have presented letters from two Honolulu doctors and Marcos' personal physician, saying Marcos suffers from an enlarged heart and a thickening of the heart muscle.
This class of diseases includes lupus, a chronic illness marked by skin lesions, anemia and arthritis; and scleroderma, a thickening and hardening of tissues under the skin that can affect the lungs, heart and kidneys.