thickening
noun
- act or process of causing to become thicker
adjective
- acts to thicken
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪkənɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English thicken English -ing English thickening From thicken + -ing.
- Beginning to thicken, becoming thicker.
“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.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English thicken English -ing English thickening From thicken + -ing.
- The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
- A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
- A thickened part of a structure.
“[…] the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts […]”
“They disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English thicken English -ing English thickening From thicken + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of thicken