Thicken

(verb.) become thick or thicker; 'The sauce thickened'; 'The egg yolk will inspissate'.

(verb.) make thick or thicker; 'Thicken the sauce'; 'inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch'.

(verb.) make viscous or dense; 'thicken the sauce by adding flour'.

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• That perils had thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The fur of this species will thicken and its whiteness increase with every generation, until there is no advantage in carrying any more fur. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At last, when the darkness and stillness had seemed for hours to thicken one another, she heard the bell at the gate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Even though the muscles of accommodation do their best to bulge and thicken the lens, the rays of light are not bent sufficiently to focus sharply on the retina. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That perils had thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The light of the debut still lingered on the horizon, but the cloud had thickened; and suddenly it broke. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Her heart was set on performing her promise to Tom and Aunt Chloe, and she sighed as discouragements thickened around her. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened, and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Thirdly, the employment of the fulling-mill for thickening the cloth, instead of treading it in water. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The reddleman watched his form as it diminished to a speck on the road and became absorbed in the thickening films of night. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He sat for a long time on the bench in the thickening dusk, his eyes never turning from the balcony. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Robert Jordan felt the ache in his throat and his voice thickening. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The plot was but thickening; the wonder but culminating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The wind blew fiercely now, and the thickening white storm waxed bewildering; but on she came, and not dismayed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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