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thickening
CEFRB1
/ˈθɪkənɪŋ/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
The process of becoming thicker or more solid.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
Examples
Corn starch is good for thickening soup.
The fog was thickening quickly.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 3
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA thickened part of a structure.
The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
verb
Extra meaningpresent participle and gerund of thicken
More examples
In contextThey disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff.
[…] the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts […]
From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
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Origin
noun
From thicken + -ing.