thicken – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
thicken
v.
make thick in consistency; become thick, condense; grow more intricate, become increasingly complex
thicken
Verb
1. make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
(synonym) inspissate
(antonym) thin
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(cause) inspissate
(verb-group) inspissate
(derivation) thickening, thickener
2. become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"
(synonym) inspissate
(antonym) thin
(hypernym) change state, turn
(verb-group) inspissate
3. make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour"
(synonym) inspissate
(hypernym) change integrity
(derivation) thickening, thickener
thicken
v.
zesílit; zahoustnout; učinit tlustším; zahustit
thicken
Czas.
gęstnieć; zagęszczać (się)
Thicken
(v. t.)
To strengthen; to confirm.
(v. t.)
To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
(v. t.)
To make thick (in any sense of the word).
(v. t.)
To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
(v. t.)
To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
(v. i.)
To become thick.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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