Word Finder - deepened

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To make deep or deeper

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They deepened the well by 200 feet.

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To make darker or more intense; to darken

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The event deepened the prevailing gloom.

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To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree

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News of her death deepened my sorrow.

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To make lower in tone

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The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.

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To make more thorough or extensive.

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The class deepened my understanding of the subject.

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To make more intimate.

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The shared experiences deepened our relationship.

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To make more sound or heavy.

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The hypnotist then proceeded to deepen his trance.

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To become deeper

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The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.

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To become darker or more intense

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The crisis deepened in the following weeks.

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To become lower in tone

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His voice deepened with age.

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To become more thorough or extensive.

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His skill in deciphering the texts deepened with practice.

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To become more intimate.

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The conversation deepened and they began to truly share.

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To become more sound or heavy.

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The new bed allowed my sleep to deepen.

The furrows between his brows deepened.

The origin of insect wings remains, therefore, a mystery, deepened by the difficulty of imagining any probable use for thoracic outgrowths, comparable to the wingrudiments of the Exopterygota, in the early stages of their evolution.

Now half the bed of the river has been walled over for the metropolitan railway, while the other half has been deepened, and the portion of it within the town has been arched over.

He believed that language unified and deepened community.

His frown deepened into a scowl and then he rolled over, turning his back to her.

She deepened the kiss, and he responded with his own hunger.

Her face deepened to crimson, and her dilating eyes dropped to his lips before flying up again.

Her frown deepened when she looked at Ne'Rin, and her gaze grew intense and considering when she regarded him.

Hilden's frown deepened, but he accepted it and hurried away, sensing the urgency.

The furrows between his eyes deepened as his brows drew down further.

He kept the pace slow, despite his hunger, and deepened the kiss.

South Lowestoft arose on the completion of harbour improvements, begun in 1844, when the outlet of the Waveney, reopened in 1827, was deepened.

It has direct communication with the sea by a ship-canal, greatly enlarged and deepened since 1895, which connects the Grand Basin, stretching along the north side of the city, with a spacious harbour excavated at Terneuzen on the Scheldt, 212 m.

As the main valley deepens, the tributary streambeds are deepened also, and gradually cut their way headwards, enlarging the area whence they draw their supplies.

He deepened and extended his acquaintance with Greek, particularly with his favourite authors Homer and Xenophon; and, to crown all, he succeeded in achieving the third perusal of Blackstone's Commentaries.

The religious feeling, which had not been absent even during the struggles of manhood, deepened in old age, and took the form the piety of the times prescribed.

At the same time the old knowledge of nearer Asia was immensely deepened.

Paul habitually expanded and deepened this, and, in this case, that paragraph is enormously enlarged, so that it may be regarded as including chapters i.-iii., and as carrying the main thought of the epistle.

Closer acquaintance with these German friends in Savannah deepened the impression.

That he was the most attractive figure of a man of letters in his generation is admitted; and the acknowledged fascination of his character was deepened, and was extended over an extremely wide circle of readers, by the publication in 1899 of his Letters, which have subdued even those who were rebellious to the entertainment of his books.

During the last 25 years of the 19th century the channel of the Elbe was greatly improved and deepened, and during the last two years of the 19th century some £360,000 was spent by Hamburg alone in regulating and correcting this lower course of the river.

In front of the city is the small harbour, well protected from all winds except those from the S.; in and after 1892 the Hawaiian government deepened its entrance from 21 ft.

Since then the canal has been widened and deepened, and the naval port at Sidi Abdallah created.

Up to Frankfort it has been deepened and the channel otherwise improved.

But the questions proper to the new day came swiftly upon his quick and susceptible mind - enlarged, deepened and developed it.

During the first of these periods he deepened his unpopularity by assailing the undoubted prerogatives of the crown, by claiming for the House of Commons the right to override not only the king and the Lords but the opinion of the country, and by resisting a dissolution.

In export trade Mariupol ranks next to Taganrog among the ports of the Sea of Azov; but its harbour is open to the south-east and shallow, though it is being gradually deepened by systematic dredging.

It broadened and deepened many of the valleys; rounded the hills; turned aside many streams, causing changes in drainage and giving rise to innumerable waterfalls and rapids; and it formed the thousands of lakes, large and small, which dot the surface.

The nest is a slight hollow in the ground, wonderfully inconspicuous even when deepened, as is usually the case, by incubation, and the blackspotted olive eggs (four in number) are almost invisible to the careless or untrained eye.

In the past they were often allowed to fall into disrepair, but in 1903 a department of government was formed to control their upkeep, with the result that most of them were soon furnished with new locks, deepened, and made thoroughly serviceable.

The bed of the river was deepened to 27 ft.

He was the last and the most wilful but perhaps the best of her favourites, and his tragic fate deepened the gloom of her closing years.

Sandhagen (1639-1697), and there his religious life was remarkably quickened and deepened.

The U.S. government has deepened the harbour channel to 18 ft.; and the St Joseph river has been made navigable for vessels drawing 3 ft.

Two missionaries were sent to the Friendly Islands in 1826, and in 1835 a mission was undertaken among the cannibals of Fiji, which spread and deepened till the whole group of islands was transformed.

By the completion of the engineering works on the Weser in 1887-1899, whereby, among other improvements, the river was straightened and deepened to 18 ft., large ocean-going vessels are able to steam right up to the city itself.

In 1791 the river, which bisects the town, was made navigable for vessels of 50 tons and further deepened a century later.

The animating spirit of love, moreover, has here deepened and intensified into a crystalline harmony of earthly passion with the love that is divine and transcending; the outward manifestation is regarded as a symbol of a sentiment at once eternal and quintessential.

On the other hand, the natural dislike of the United States felt by the loyalists and their descendants was deepened and broadened, and has not yet wholly died away, especially among the women of the province.

She recognized Carlyle's vast intellectual superiority, and the respect gradually deepened into genuine love.

Afterwards the pathways of the streams would be gradually deepened and widened into valleys.

His whole conception of life and character had deepened since Don Carlos, and under the influence of Kant's philosophy the drama became the embodiment of ethical problems that are essentially modern.

In order to counterbalance their rivalry, the quays have been extended, a canal was opened in 1900 between the Trave and the Elbe, the river up to the wharves has been deepened to 25 ft.

An unhappy adventure in love deepened his sense of failure, but he became betrothed to Maria White in the autumn of 1840, and the next twelve years of his life were deeply affected by her influence.

The ancient harbour (really but a portion of the lagoons, which had been deepened) is now completely silted up. Even in early times a canal had to be kept open by perpetual digging, while about 1700 this was closed, and now a sandy and partly cultivated waste extends between the town and the seashore.

The conception of linkage needs to be deepened by the realization of the middle term as the ground of nexus in a real order which is also rational.

The new synthesis reveals a universal decline from the 5th to the 10th centuries, while the Germanic races were learning the rudiments of culture, a decline that was deepened by each succeeding wave of migration, each tribal war of Franks or Saxons, and reached its climax in the disorders of the 9th and 10th centuries when the half-formed civilization of Christendom was forced to face the migration of the Northmen by sea, the raids of the Saracen upon the south and the onslaught of Hungarians and Sla y s upon the east.

Under an act of 1791 harbour trustees were appointed who cleared and deepened the river bed and built a long pier on either side of it; in 1796 the approach to the port was made safer by means of an improved light on Mumbles Head.

His resolve to become a minister was deepened by the revival of 1858-1859.

In fact the later Greek religion did not advance much above the high-water mark of the Homeric, although the poets and philosophers deepened certain of its nobler traits.