Dictionary Entry
thicken
thicken is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make thick (in any sense of the word). Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make thick (in any sense of the word).
- 2transitive verb
To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
- 3transitive verb
To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
- 4transitive verb
To strengthen; to confirm.
- 5transitive verb
To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
- 6intransitive verb
To become thick.
- 7verb
become thick or thicker
"The sauce thickened"
"The egg yolk will inspissate"
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- 8verb
make thick or thicker
"Thicken the sauce"
"inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
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- 9verb
make viscous or dense
"thicken the sauce by adding flour"
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