Synonyms:
deepening(a), thickening(a)
Meaning: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
deepening
Meaning: a process of becoming deeper and more profound
Usage examples
Stimulated to an ever deepening subtlety
The broad flakes of wood flew from the deepening gashes in the sides of the oak.
The rain swept down in spiteful volleys, deepening at last into a fierce, steady discharge.
The shadows of his face were deepening and his tight lips seemed holding in check the moan of great despair.
It's as if he said to me: 'I like you very much, but if it doesn't please you I'll never say it again.' I think that's very kind, very noble," Pansy went on with deepening positiveness.
Along the sides of the glacier we saw the mighty flood grinding against the granite walls with tremendous pressure, rounding outswelling bosses, and deepening the retreating hollows into the forms they are destined to have when, in the fullness of appointed time, the huge ice tool shall be withdrawn by the sun.
He cursed the conventions which forbade his staying and watching over the girl back there in the house which already stood upon an island, cut off from the safe, high land by a strip of backwater that was widening and deepening every minute, and, when it rose high enough to flow into the river below, would have a current that would make a nasty crossing.