Definitions of thicken [ˈθɪk ən]

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Definition of 'thicken'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) thicken
to make or become thick or thicker.

2. thicken
to make or grow more profound or intricate:
The plot thickens in the next chapter.

Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME thiknen < ON thykkna. See thick , -en¹)

Definition of 'thicken'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) thicken, inspissate
make thick or thicker
"Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"

2. (verb) thicken, inspissate
become thick or thicker
"The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"

3. (verb) thicken, inspissate
make viscous or dense
"thicken the sauce by adding flour"

Definition of 'thicken'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) thicken
to become or make thicker
as the fog thickened; Thicken the sauce with a little flour.

Definition of 'thicken'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) thicken
to make thick (in any sense of the word)

2. (verb) thicken
to render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint

3. (verb) thicken
to make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men

4. (verb) thicken
to strengthen; to confirm

5. (verb) thicken
to make more frequent; as, to thicken blows

6. (verb) thicken
to become thick

Translation of 'thicken'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make or become thick or thicker We'll add some flour to thicken the soup; The fog thickened and we could no longer see the road.
Afrikaans: verdig, verdik	Arabic: يَتَكَثَّف، يَثْخَن	Bulgarian: сгъстявам (се)
Brazilian: engrossar	Czech: zhoustnout	German: verdicken, -dichten
Danish: jævne; blive tættere	Greek: πήζω, πυκνώνω	Spanish: espesar(se)
Estonian: paksendama, paksenema	Farsi: ضخیم کردن	Finnish: paksuntaa
French: (s')épaissir	Hebrew: לְעַבּוֹת	Hindi: गाढ़ा करना
Croatian: zgustiti, postati gust	Hungarian: besűrít	Indonesian: mengentalkan
Icelandic: þykkja; þykkna	Italian: addensare; ispessire	Japanese: 厚くする
Korean: 걸쭉하게 하다, 자욱해지다	Lithuanian: tirštinti, tirštėti	Latvian: iebiezināt; sabiezēt
Malay: menebal; memekat	Dutch: dikker maken/worden	Norwegian: gjøre/bli tykkere, tykne
Polish: zagęścić, zgęstnieć	Portuguese: engrossar	Romanian: a (se)îngroşa
Russian: утолщать(ся); сгущать(ся)	Slovak: zhustnúť	Slovenian: zgostiti (se)
Serbian: zgusnuti se	Swedish: [få att] tjockna, tätna	Thai: ทำให้หนาขึ้น
Turkish: kalınlaş(tır)mak, koyulaş	Taiwanese: 使變厚(粗、密、濃)或(更厚、更粗、更密、更濃)	Ukrainian: згущувати(ся)
Urdu: گاڑھا کرنا، موٹا کرنا	Vietnamese: làm cho dày thêm	Chinese: 使变厚（粗、密、浓），或更厚（更粗、更密、更浓）
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