Word Finder - deepening

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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.

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The act of becoming deeper.

She knew the color was deepening in her cheeks.

He stopped and faced her, frown deepening.

Operations for removing the obstacles in the channel and for deepening and widening it were begun as long ago as 1838.

Sofia glared at him, her embarrassment deepening at the look the men around the fire gave her.

By a re-elevation of a peneplain the rivers of an old land surface may be restored to youthful activity, and resume their shaping action, deepening the old valleys and initiating new ones, starting afresh the whole course of the geographical cycle.

With basic substances, the chromophoric combination with a colourless acid is generally attended by a deepening in colour; auxochromic combination, on the other hand, with a lessening.

These cilia pass on any diatoms and -_„ other minute organism which come within their range of action to the -_-„ capacious oval mouth, which appears as a mere 10 --- deepening of the gutter in the middle line.

Watase has shown, in a very convincing way, how by deepening the pit-like set of cells beneath a simple lens the more complex ommatidia of the compound eyes of Crustacea and Hexapoda may be derived from such a condition as that presented in the lateral eyes of Limulus and Scorpio.

The efforts of the river authorities are being directed to the deepening and improvement of the navigable channel from the sea to Strassburg, the low-water depths aimed at being TO ft.

In order to avoid the dangerous part of the river near the town a channel was cut in 1734, the repairing and deepening of which, begun in 1868, was completed in 1873.

In the Georgics we are struck by the great advance in the originality and self-dependence of the artist, in the mature perfection of his workmanship, in the deepening and strengthening of all his sympathies and convictions.

The sooty-grey colour that, deepening into blackish-brown on the crown and quills, pervades the whole of its plumage - the lower tailcoverts, which are of a deep chestnut, excepted - renders it a conspicuous object; and though, for some reason or other, far from being a favourite, it is always willing when undisturbed to become intimate with men's abodes.

Another important undertaking is the deepening of the Trinity river to Dallas, a distance of 511 m., thereby affording a navigable waterway almost to the northern boundary of the state.

For the better accommodation of the increasing commerce of the port of Boston, the commonwealth bought a considerable frontage upon the harbour lines and constructed a dock capable of receiving the largest vessels, and has supplemented the work of the United States government in deepening the approaches to the wharves.

In 1905 a project was sanctioned for improving the communication between Berlin and Stettin by widening and deepening the lower course of the river and then connecting this by a canal with Berlin.

The waterway of the present London Bridge is 690 ft., and the removal of the obstruction caused by the old bridge caused a lowering of the low-water level by 5 ft., and a considerable deepening of the river-bed.

The master streams of the present have inherited their channels from the drainage systems of the Cretaceous lowland, and though raised athwart the courses of the lowland trunk streams the great arch was developed so slowly that these channels could be maintained through pari passu deepening.

This alone would serve to indicate the remarkable deepening of the religious life that had taken place in the Latin countries.

The city's river commerce, though of less relative importance since the advent of railways, is large and brings to its wharves much bulky freight, such as coal, iron and lumber; it also helps to distribute the products of the city's factories; and the National government has done much to sustain this commerce by deepening and lighting the channel.

Tampico and Coatzacoalcos, however, have been improved by breakwaters or jetties, and the deepening of the Channels across the bars, into safe and commodious harbours.

The government also did much in the way of improving the internal communications of the country, in repairing the roads and canals, in forming new ones, in deepening and widening rivers, and the like.

Mehemet Ali began by deepening the canals of Lower Egypt by this amount, a gigantic and futile task; for as they had been laid out on no scientific principles, the deep channels became filled with mud during the first flood, and all the excavation had to be done over again, year after year.

Indirectly he powerfully promoted it by deepening the national life from which it sprang.

The work of construction was under the control of the Inland Waterways and Docks Section of the Royal Engineers, and involved the reclamation of a large tract of swampy foreshore, the widening and deepening of the waterway, the construction of a wharf and jetty nearly a mile in length equipped with powerful cranes and of docks for the building and repair of certain kinds of craft, the erection of acres of hutments and store-sheds, and the laying of some 50 m.

After the first moult the difference between the sexes is shown by the hens inclining to yellowish-green, while the cocks become diversified by orange-yellow and red, their plumage finally deepening into a rich crimson-red, varied in places by a flamecolour.

Hence almost from the beginning of his public ministry they constantly opposed him, the conflict deepening into complete antagonism.

It has two basins, with the necessary accompaniment of cranes, storehouses, &c., and the deepening of the Oder from Stettin to the Haff to 24 ft.

So far as the course of universal history can be truly represented as an approximation to this reconciliation by a widening and deepening of both the elements, we may claim to possess a philosophy of history.

Notwithstanding the deepening of the strait, so that ships are now able to enter the Sea of Azov, Kerch retains its importance for the export trade in wheat, brought thither by coasting vessels.

The finer particles of clay in the line of the joint are washed away, while the sandy particles, which nearly all natural clays contain, remain behind and form a constantly deepening porous vein of sand crossing the base of the puddle.

The deepening of the channel of the Wabash river was begun in 1872.

Formerly ships of heavy burden bound for Stettin discharged or lightened their cargo at Swinemiinde, but since the recent deepening of the river Oder they can proceed direct to the larger port.

From 1904 onwards the French undertook works on the Niger between Bamako - whence there is railway communication with the Senegal - and Ansongo with a view to deepening the channel and removing obstructions to navigation.

Now the rains have come but storms have destroyed crops, deepening the crisis.

It is normally shallow on the path side, gradually deepening across the river to the far side.

This law will become a fundamental part of that ever deepening conspiracy against history.

Technological advance can affect this balance, with capital often impelled toward spatial deepening and widening.

The deepening layer of taxation in price that resulted I call the social lien.

Deepening of the sea in the later Cretaceous marked the onset of the deposition of large amounts of calcareous ooze on the sea-floor.

This next step involves a deepening and maturing of humanity to utilize the full potentiality available to us.

In Britain the job losses threatened in British shipbuilding yards are an even more tangible proof of a deepening recession.

Or maybe you're hostile to the gospel of Jesus Christ and you are sinking into deepening unbelief.

But already from 1831, when he published his Discours sur quelques sujets religieux (Nouveaux discours, 1841), he had begun to exert a liberalizing and deepening influence on religious thought far beyond his own canton, by bringing traditional doctrine to the test of a living personal experience (see also Frommel, Gaston).

Such knowledge floods the soul unseen with a soundless tidal wave of deepening thought.

Or maybe you 're hostile to the gospel of Jesus Christ and you are sinking into deepening unbelief.

The product claims to rejuvenate your skin while deepening its color by including vitamins and minerals in the mix.

This is also good for deepening or evening out an existing, but fading, sunless tan.

The flowers vary from pale pink to a deep magenta, deepening towards the centre of the flower and from day to day.

Nymphaea Alba Laydekeri Lilacea - Very free in its small flowers of soft rosy-lilac tipped with clear pink, their color deepening to rosy-crimson on the third day.

Nymphaea Alba Lucida - With massive flowers opening starwise and rosy-vermilion in color, paling towards the edges and the tips of the petals and deepening towards the cluster of orange stamens.