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Deepen   /dˈipən/   Listen
verb
Deepen  v. t.  (past & past part. deepened; pres. part. deepening)  
1.
To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. "It would... deepen the bed of the Tiber."
2.
To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. "You must deepen your colors."
3.
To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
4.
To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. "Deepens the murmur of the falling floods."



Deepen  v. i.  To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens. "His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun."






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... though greatly exaggerated by modern speculators, was, upon the whole, beneficial, though not from the reasons that have been assigned. As they grew up into their ripened and mature importance—their ceremonial, rather than their doctrine, served to deepen and diffuse a reverence for religious things. Whatever the licentiousness of other mysteries (especially in Italy), the Eleusinian rites long retained their renown for purity and decorum; they were jealously watched by ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... periods; and by Mrs. Micawber and her relations, senseless imbeciles or unmitigated scoundrels all, as her husband testifies; by Mrs. Gamp, by Barkis, and even the young man by the name of Guppy. A smile spreads over the face of the whole reading world at the bare mention of their names. How the smiles deepen into tears as we think over the other friends to whom he has introduced us,—mutual friends of us all; of whom we talk when we congregate together, with just as much of real feeling and interest as we do of other friends of flesh and blood, laugh over their foibles and follies, pity their sorrows, ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... that floor could not avoid feeling that the crisis was serious and the issue doubtful. As if to deepen this impression, there soon rose to address the House John Dickinson, of Pennsylvania, a good man and a patriot, an able speaker and better writer, but rich, not of robust health, ...
— Revolutionary Heroes, And Other Historical Papers • James Parton

... mental ease. It should have been a time of stirring hope. A moment for complaisant contemplation of a great purpose achieved. But the man at the window regarded the thing he looked upon without any display of pleasurable feeling. The sight of it literally seemed to deepen the unease which looked ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

... curses served, however, to turn the marauders from their purpose. Once again the outbuildings and store-rooms of Greenwood were ransacked and swept clear of their goodly plenty, and once again, as if to deepen the sense of injury, the stable was made to furnish the means with which the robbery ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford


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