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deepen

[dee-puhn]

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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to make or become deep or deeper: Larger ships will be able to navigate the river after the main channel is deepened. The shadows deepened toward late afternoon.

Meteorology. to decrease in atmospheric pressure: a deepening cyclone.

Origin:
1595–1605; deep + -en¹

Related forms

deep·en·er, noun

deep·en·ing·ly, adverb

o·ver·deep·en, verb (used with object)

un·deep·ened, adjective

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Deepen is always a great word to know.

So is pressure gradient. Does it mean:

precipitation consisting of numerous, minute droplets of water

the change in atmospheric pressure per unit of horizontal distance in the direction in which pressure changes most rapidly

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deepen (ˈdiːp^ən)

—vb
	to make or become deep, deeper, or more intense

'deepener

—n

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Word Origin & History

deepen

c.1600, from deep (adj.). The earlier verb had been simply deep, from O.E. diepan

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"True and sincere traveling is no pastime, but it is as serious as the grave, or any part of the human journey, and it requires a long probation to be broken into it. I do not speak of those that travel sitting, the sedentary travelers whose legs hang dangling the while, mere idle symbols of the fact, any more than when we speak of sitting hens we mean those that sit standing, but I mean those to whom traveling is life for the legs, and death too, at last. The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements, the principal powers that be for him. He shall experience at last that old threat of his mother fulfilled, that he shall be skinned alive. His sores shall gradually deepen themselves that they may heal inwardly, while he gives no rest to the sole of his foot, and at night weariness must be his pillow, that so he may acquire experience against his rainy days. So it was with us."

-Henry David Thoreau

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