thicken
Example Sentences
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When a hand with clawed fingers and thickened nails was put into his, he understandably left shaken to his core—and a confirmed spirit believer.
From Literature
My sympathy for Opal was fading with the thickening of her skull.
From Literature
On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.
Simmer until the liquid reduces and the starches thicken into something spoonable and lush.
From Salon
To get older, wiser and have your skin thickened by all the slings and arrows?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
