Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become deep or deeper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become deep or deeper, in any sense; increase in depth.
- To make deep or deeper, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower.
- transitive verb To make darker or more intense; to darken.
- transitive verb To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree.
- transitive verb To make more grave or low in tone.
- intransitive verb To become deeper
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
deep or deeper - verb To make darker or more intense; to darken
- verb To make more
poignant or affecting; to increase in degree - verb To make lower in tone
- verb intransitive To become deeper
- verb intransitive To become darker or more intense
- verb intransitive To become lower in tone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- verb make deeper
- verb become more intense
- verb become deeper in tone
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you read him with attention, Williams will expand your mind, will set it on things wondrous and permanent, will make the world you live in deepen because of the new-perceived order.
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She watched the puzzled expression deepen on Olga's face.
The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler
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Odes are recited to the mysterious ways financial elites "deepen" markets and make them more efficient -- how they even out prices.
Les Leopold: Wall Street Robber Baron Nets $2.4 Million an Hour While 28 Million Need Jobs Les Leopold 2011
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Locate the nearest bomb shelter, NOW: "Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said yesterday that she was going to "deepen" American involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and "accelerate" progress on the road map."
Monday, January 15, 2007 As'ad 2007
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The Vice President will host a lunch for the Prime Minister and I would expect the other meetings, including the meeting with the President, to address their anticipated entry into NATO, other regional issues involving cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe, and just steps to kind of deepen our bilateral relationship.
Press Briefing By Staff Members ITY National Archives 1998
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Mr van Rumpoy added that the EU will "deepen" its common market with more reforms later this year.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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And they will seek to "deepen" US-Brazil ties during stops in Rio and Brasilia, as well as highlight the South American giant's "extraordinary efforts" to reduce poverty and crime.
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Mr van Rumpoy added that the EU will "deepen" its common market with more reforms later this year.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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On Dec. 2, she told Washington Post columnist Lally Weymouth she has "great admiration" for Obama, and in her inaugural speech to Congress said she hopes to "deepen" ties with the U.S.
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On Dec. 2, she told Washington Post columnist Lally Weymouth she has "great admiration" for Obama, and in her inaugural speech to Congress said she hopes to "deepen" ties with the U.S.
oroboros commented on the word deepen
Sounds like the letters D P N.
October 31, 2009