deepen
/ˈdiːp(ə)n
/verb
Make or become deep or deeper: [no object]: the crisis deepened (as adjective deepening) a deepening depression...
- It seems that Britain's upmarket retailers suffered most and will suffer further if the crisis deepens.
- Local primary schools have issued an urgent cry for help as the schools crisis in the town deepens.
- Beyond the plush-velvet-curtained windows, the darkness and the fog deepen, and a weeping drizzle of rain begins to fall.
Synonyms
grow, increase, intensify, strengthen, escalate, mushroom, snowball;
add to, heighten, reinforce, enhance, boost, magnify, amplify, augment, enrich, promote, encourage;
exacerbate, aggravate, inflame, worsen, make/become worse
informal hot up, step up
dig out, make deeper, dig deeper, scoop out, scrape out, hollow out, excavate
Rhymes
- childless
- childlessness
- child-life
- childlike
- childlikeness
- Childline
- childliness
- childling
- child lock
- Child, Lydia Maria
- childmind
- childminder
- childminding
- child molestation
- child molester
- childness
- child offender
- child porn
- child pornographer
- child pornography
- child prodigy
- childproof
- child protection
- child psychiatrist
- child psychiatry