Fromdeep +-en.
deepen (third-person singular simple presentdeepens,present participledeepening,simple past and past participledeepened)
- (transitive) To makedeep or deeper
Theydeepened the well by 200 feet.
- (transitive) To make darker or more intense; to darken
The eventdeepened the prevailing gloom.
- (transitive) To make morepoignant or affecting; to increase in degree
News of her deathdeepened my sorrow.
- (transitive) To make lower in tone
The tunerdeepened the tone of the organ.
- (transitive) To make more thorough or extensive.
The classdeepened my understanding of the subject.
- (transitive) To make more intimate.
The shared experiencesdeepened our relationship.
- (transitive) To make more sound or heavy.
The hypnotist then proceeded todeepen his trance.
- (intransitive) To become deeper
The waterdeepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.
- (intransitive) To become darker or more intense
The crisisdeepened in the following weeks.
1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, inRailway Magazine, page270:We may be pardoned our nostalgia, those of us who can remember the old days, the days before the grouping and before standardisation, when we see, as today we see so often, the derelict and abandoned buildings of what were once railway stations, for the life which they used to enjoy we lived with them. There they stand, today, as the duskdeepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted.
- (intransitive) To become lower in tone
His voicedeepened with age.
- (intransitive) To become more thorough or extensive.
His skill in deciphering the textsdeepened with practice.
- (intransitive) To become more intimate.
The conversationdeepened and they began to truly share.
2001, Susan Stryker,Queer Pulp, page104:He's in the process of breaking up with one boyfriend, who refuses to let their relationshipdeepen, and courting another, who promises to be somebody with whom he could grow old.
- (intransitive) To become more sound or heavy.
The new bed allowed my sleep todeepen.
to make deep or deeper
- Arabic:تَعَمَّقَ(taʕammaqa)
- Bulgarian:задълбочавам (bg)(zadǎlbočavam),удълбочавам(udǎlbočavam)
- Catalan:profunditzar (ca),apregonar (ca),enfondir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:加深 (zh)(jiāshēn)
- Czech:prohlubovat impf,prohloubit pf
- Dutch:verdiepen (nl)
- Esperanto:profundigi
- Finnish:syventää (fi)
- French:approfondir (fr)
- Galician:afondar (gl)
- German:aushölen,vertiefen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek:βαθύνω(bathúnō)
- Hungarian:mélyít (hu)
- Indonesian:memperdalam (id)
- Italian:approfondire (it)
- Japanese:深める (ja)(ふかめる, fukameru)
- Korean:깊게하다(gipge hada)
- Polish:pogłębiać (pl) impf,pogłębić (pl) pf
- Portuguese:aprofundar (pt)
- Russian:углубля́ть (ru) impf(uglubljátʹ),углуби́ть (ru) pf(uglubítʹ)
- Spanish:ahondar (es),(pleaseverify)profundizar (es)
- Ukrainian:погли́блювати impf(pohlýbljuvaty),погли́бити pf(pohlýbyty)
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to make darker or more intense
to make more thorough or extensive
to make more sound or heavy
to become darker or more intense
to become more thorough or extensive
to become more sound or heavy
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