deepen

CEFRC1

/ˈdiːpən/

verb

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

In context

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

He's in the process of breaking up with one boyfriend, who refuses to let their relationship deepen, and courting another, who promises to be somebody with whom he could grow old.
2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 104
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 dusk deepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted.
1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 270

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

From deep + -en.