| 单词 | deepen |
| 释义 | deepen (diːpən ) Word forms: deepens , deepening , deepened 1. verb If a situation or emotion deepens or if something deepens it, it becomes stronger and more intense. If this is not stopped, the financial crisis will deepen. [VERB] If anything, Sloan's uneasiness deepened. [VERB] Surviving tough times can really deepen your relationship. [VERB noun] 2. verb If you deepen your knowledge or understanding of a subject, you learn more about it and become more interested in it. He did not get a chance to deepen his knowledge of Poland. [VERB noun] 3. ergative verb When light or a colour deepens or is deepened, it becomes darker. [literary] Dusk was deepening as they drove back to the lights of Shillingham. [VERB] This spice is used particularly in poultry feed to deepen the colour of egg yolks. [VERB noun] Synonyms: darken, shade, make dark, make darker 4. verb When a sound deepens or is deepened, it becomes lower in tone. Her voice has deepened and coarsened with the years. [VERB] The music room had been made to reflect and deepen sounds. [VERB noun] 5. verb When your breathing deepens, or you deepen it, you take more air into your lungs when you breathe. He heard her breathing deepen. [VERB] When you are ready to finish the exercise, gradually deepen your breathing. [VERB noun] 6. verb If people deepen something, they increase its depth by digging out its lower surface. ...a major project to deepen the channel. [VERB noun] The tunnels have been widened and deepened. [VERB noun] Synonyms: dig out, excavate, scoop out, hollow out 7. verb Something such as a river or a sea deepens where the bottom begins to slope downwards. As we drew nearer to it the water gradually deepened. [VERB] Collocations: deepen a bond Slowing down and feeling the sensations and emotions can deepen your bond. Times, Sunday Times See the love you give as something special to deepen a bond. The Sun This will deepen the bond between you. The Sun If you're involved, you could do the true talking that deepens a bond. The Sun Knowing you trust each other deepens your bond. The Sun The nature of personal relationships formed between individual members of the boards may also deepen the divisions of loyalty. Times, Sunday Times For the unaffiliated, the innovations simply deepened the division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The matter deepened the division between the two men, who stopped speaking to each other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The simplest words of affection deepen a partnership. The Sun This will deepen a partnership or help you see the love potential of a casual acquaintance. The Sun This can deepen a partnership or turn a friendship into a loving relationship. The Sun The quiet moments of love deepen a partnership. The Sun When it comes to love, simply knowing what you truly want will deepen a partnership. The Sun This can deepen a relationship or start a new one. The Sun Romantic words you have waited to hear are spoken and deepen a relationship. The Sun This will deepen a relationship and also help you make the right where-to-live choices. The Sun Realising that love can be both fun and sincere helps deepen a relationship. The Sun In your love life, talking about a new level of commitment can deepen the relationship. The Sun Labor was narrowly defeated at the polls, which deepened the rift between the two men. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These expanded the realm of official customary law and deepened the rift between it and living customary law. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His departure deepened the rift within the community. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She sets her high, pure, tremulous voice against electronic backdrops whose melodic sweetness and simplicity deepen the sense of disquiet. Times,Sunday Times A restrained palette of materials, many of which are local — handmade peg clay tiles, quarried ragstone and coppiced chestnut cladding — deepen the sense of unity and rootedness. Times, Sunday Times Swift's next move deepened the sense that this most in-control of artists had mislaid her magic touch. Times, Sunday Times A choir enters, giving the song a sacramental air, and deepening the sense of transgression. Times,Sunday Times This deepened the sense of outrage. Times, Sunday Times Many diseases that primarily affect the poor serve to also deepen poverty and worsen conditions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Deliberately deepening poverty in this way increases the costly demands on the health and education services. Times, Sunday Times But retailers continue to drive down prices, deepening poverty for suppliers' workforces. Times, Sunday Times The full moon focuses on relationships and helps you find ways to deepen understanding. The Sun You'll be such a good communicator and can find the words that deepen understanding in the family. The Sun An unmissable introduction to his work for newbies, as well as something that will deepen understanding among those who know it. Times, Sunday Times You will find the words that deepen understanding in a relationship. The Sun It will accommodate 600 scientists working on big data research in diverse fields of medicine to deepen understanding and treatment of human diseases. Times, Sunday Times If they fall - as they have with alarming frequency over the past year - the depression deepens. Times, Sunday Times Now, and especially as the depression deepens, we urgently need a revival of national spirit. Times, Sunday Times Turn to the equally vexed area of university admissions and the depression deepens. Times, Sunday Times And as the mystery deepens, we learn more about the characters. The Sun The mystery deepens as they uncover family tensions and loads of motives. The Sun The mystery deepens further, though, because polar clams, scallops, oysters and snails are the complete opposite: they are unusually small. Times, Sunday Times The mystery deepens when they witness the apparent abduction of another man by a strange eye in the sky. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His voice deepens and rolls sonorously-the voice of doom. Christianity Today In the 1960s, his voice deepens and flattens out demotically, although he still rhymes 'commanding' with 'landing'. Times, Sunday Times The chuckling stops and the voice deepens. Times, Sunday Times After this, the voice deepens and softens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 加剧 Japanese: 深刻にする/深刻になる |
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