What is "thickening" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does thickening mean in English? Meaning of thickening definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "thickening" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "thickening": any material used to thicken

Noun

  • Meaning: any material used to thicken
  • Example: starch is used in cooking as a thickening
  • Synonyms: thickener thickening
  • Hypernyms: material stuff
  • Meaning of "thickening": accumulating and becoming more intense

    Adjective

  • Meaning: accumulating and becoming more intense
  • Example: the deepening gloom felt a deepening love the thickening dusk
  • Synonyms: deepening thickening
  • Similar: intensifying
  • Meaning of "thickening": any thickened enlargement

    Noun

  • Meaning: any thickened enlargement
  • Synonyms: knob node thickening
  • Hypernyms: convex shape convexity
  • Meaning of "thickening": becoming more intricate or complex

    Adjective

  • Meaning: becoming more intricate or complex
  • Example: a thickening plot
  • Synonyms: thickening
  • Similar: complex
  • Meaning of "thickening": the act of thickening

    Noun

  • Meaning: the act of thickening
  • Synonyms: inspissation thickening
  • Hypernyms: condensation condensing
  • Synonyms:

    clot, curdle, swell, congeal, condense, stiffen, enlarge, widen, buttress, reinforce, inspissate, jelly, freeze, harden, add, solidify, cake, deepen, coagulate, ossify, petrify, expand, jell, gel, clabber, grow thick,

    Antonyms:

    thin, liquefy, abridge, decrease, lessen, weaken, subtract, soften, dilute, water down, melt, diminish, lower, reduce, shrink,

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    thickening in English: thickening
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