thicken
Example Sentences
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When heating eases, the shell thickens again as water refreezes.
From Science Daily
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
