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Definitions: Deepen |
DeepenVerb1. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her", "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions". 2. Become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan". 3. Make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it". 4. Become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deepen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Synonyms: DeepenSynonyms: change (v), compound (v), heighten (v), intensify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Depth | Verb: be deep; Adjective: render deep; Adjective: deepen. |
Increase | Aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd; (add); spread; (disperse). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deepen |
| English words defined with "deepen": Depthen, Dredging machine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deepen": Breathing Exercises ♦ SKETCH MAKER II ♦ TECHNICAL COORDINATOR ♦ Vestibuloplasty. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Construction of the port started in 1938 but was not completed until 1951 because of World War II. Funding for the construction of the port was obtained via a loan from the World Bank to dredge the sand bar, deepen the river, and purchase loading/unloading equipment. (references) | |
As mentioned earlier, both of Korea's leading labor unions have called upon the government to scrap its reform plans, "claiming that overseas sales would not only deepen the national economy's dependency on outside economies, but also raise power rates at home." In another statement released by a unified energy-related labor union, one representative announced that "the reorganization of the power industry that the government is promoting now amounts to giving up the sovereignty of the nation's security and energy sources. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyzstan favors close relations with the United States and would like to deepen bilateral relations. (references) |
Romania | As Romania's policies have become unequivocally pro-Western, the United States has moved to deepen relations. (references) | |
Egypt | Plans to deepen the canal to allow use by supertankers will help, but the long-term prospects are for no or slow growth in revenues. (references) | |
Political Economy | MOROCCO | Two years into his reign, King Mohammed VI continues to demonstrate energy and determination to reform Morocco's economy and to deepen its democratic structures. (references) |
Travel | Qatar | Having already completed dredging operations to widen and deepen the port's main channel, the Government is constructing a new container service facility at the Doha port. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Deepen" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 69.54% of the time. "Deepen" is used about 174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 69.54% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 29.89% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 174 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deepen | 7 |
deepen voice | 6 |
deepen development people self their who wish | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "deepen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ulem (alight, bend, bend over, burn down, decrease, descend, dip, drop, duck, fall, go down, recede, sink, sit, sit down, take a seat), thelloj (investigate thoroughly), thellohem (become deeper, widen knowledge), forcohem (bake, become harder, become stronger, harden), errësohem (overcast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تعمق (dig, dive, go deeply into), عمق (depth, heighten, profoundly, profoundness, profundity, spit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ставам по-дълбок, сгъстявам се (fix, stiffen), задълбочавам, правя по-тъмен, правя по-широк, правя по-дълбок. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 深 (Deepened, Deepening), 深化 (intensify), 浚 (enlighten, profound), 濬 (enlighten, profound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prohloubit se (increase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uddybe en skakt (deepen a shaft, sink a shaft), sænke en skakt (deepen a shaft, sink a shaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verdiepen (to deepen), een boring dieper maken (to deepen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گودکردن (Gull, Scoop), گودشدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syvetä (become deeper), syventää (make deeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se faire plus profond, approfondir (consider in more detail, to deepen), épaissir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vertiefen (consolidate, exacerbate, extend, flatten, heighten, recess, reinforce, to deepen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαθύνω, βαθαίνω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לעמק, ל"עמיק (go down deeply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mélyül (to deepen), kiváj (gouge, groove, hollow, ream, recess, to cave, to channel, to delve, to erode, to excavate, to grave, to groove, to hollow out, to ream, to ream out, to recess, to rout out, to scoop, to slot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendalamkan, mendalam (abstruse, become deep, exhaustive, going deep, sink in, visceral), memperdalam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rendere più intenso, rendere più cupo, incupirsi, farsi più intenso, farsi più grave, approfondirsi, approfondire (master, study in deep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 深化 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"か (apotheosis, evolution, progress, real worth, retainer, sacred flame, true value). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 깊어지십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo ny s'diuney, diunaghey, cheet ny s'duiney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eependay intensificar (double, exaltation, intensify, redouble, swell), aprofundar (probe), afundar (go under, immerse, scupper, sink, submerge, wrack, wreck). (various references) deveni mai profund, deveni mai grav, se adânci (burrow, delve), se închide (close, close down, darken, fasten, shut, snap), face mai grav, aprofunda (fathom, go into long comments, root, study, think out), afunda (depress, dip, disappear, dissolve, dive, drench, duck, immerse, sink, soak, submerge), adânci (aggravate, Bury, corrode, delve, excavate, fathom, further, gouge, hole, sound, submerge, subside), închide la culoare. (various references) углублять (ratchet up, recess, sink). (various references) produbiti. (various references) ahondar (delve). (various references) djupna (get deeper). (various references) derinleştirmek, derinleşmek, koyulaştırmak (coagulate, darken, enrich, intensify, stiffen, thicken), koyulaşmak (become darker, coagulate, condense, darken, thicken), şiddetlenmek (be intensified, become stronger, intensify, rise), artmak (accrete, accrue, advance, ascend, augment, be left, be left over, duplicate, go up, harden, heighten, increase, mount up, multiply, remain, rise, scale up, soar, step up, swell, wax), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up). (various references) зuсaltmak. (various references) розширювати (amplify, chamber, enrich, expand, widen), робити глибшим, збільшувати (add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, increase, magnify, multiply, pile up), поглиблюватися, поглиблювати (cave, exacerbate, put down). (various references) dyfnhau, dwysa/u (intensify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exalta, exaltaberis, exaltabis, exaltabit, exaltabitur, exaltabo, exaltabor, exaltabuntur, exaltans, exaltant, exaltantem, exaltantes, exaltantur, exaltare, exaltarentur, exaltares, exaltaret, exaltari, exaltas, exaltasset, exaltasti, exaltat, exaltata, exaltatae, exaltate, exaltati, exaltatum, exaltatur, exaltatus, exaltaveris, exaltaverit, exaltaveritis, exaltaverunt, exaltavi, exaltavit, exaltemini, exaltemus, exaltent, exaltentur, exaltet, exaltetur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deepen": deepened, deepener, deepeners, deepening, deepens. (additional references) | |
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"Deepen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darpan, dealen, decelean, deeeeep, deelen, deepa, deepend, deeping, Degen, deinen, Deken, Depden, depe, depen, Depex, deppeana, deppei, Deupan, deupe, Dheen, diepe, Dieren, Doelen, doxepin, dupen, dweeje, Dyten, edeep, Edelen, Eupen, keepen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deepen" (pronounced dē"pun) |
| 4 | -ē" p u n | cheapen. |
| 3 | -p u n | aspen, copen, crispen, dampen, happen, hempen, lupin, misshapen, open, reopen, ripen, sharpen, somatotropin, tarpon, weapon, yaupon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: peened. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-n-p" | |
-2 letters: deep, dene, epee, need, neep, peed, peen, pend. | |
-3 letters: dee, den, end, nee, ped, pee, pen. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, ne, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-n-p" | |
+1 letter: deepens, preened. | |
+2 letters: deepened, deepener, deepness, depended, expended, expender, expensed, reopened, repented, repetend, unpeeled. | |
+3 letters: benempted, centipede, cheapened, deepeners, deepening, dependent, empaneled, ensphered, enveloped, ephedrine, expedient, expenders, henpecked, perpended, pioneered, precedent, precented, predefine, presented, pretended, pretender, prevented, repaneled, repetends, reprehend, steepened. | |
+4 letters: centipedes, deepnesses, dependable, dependance, dependence, dependency, dependents, empanelled, enciphered, ephedrines, expedience, expediency, expedients, expendable, kneecapped, meperidine, outpreened, peakedness, pedimented, pendencies, pendentive, penetrated, perennated, pinwheeled, precedence, precedency, precedents, precleaned, predefined, predefines, predestine, preenacted, pretenders, repanelled, replevined, reprehends, speediness, supervened, telephoned, unexpected, unexpended, untempered. | |
+5 letters: adeptnesses, apprehended, carpentered, codependent, copresented, dependances, dependences, dependently, depravement, despisement, despondence, deuteranope, development, expediences, expediently, expendables, expenditure, experienced, hyperextend, implemented, independent, inexpedient, intercepted, interdepend, interpreted, meperidines, needlepoint, newspapered, openhearted, overspender, pedogeneses, pedogenesis, pedogenetic, pendentives, precanceled, precedences, precensored, predestined, predestines, prenumbered, prescreened, pretendedly, recompensed, reinspected, repatterned, replenished, reprehended, represented, resplendent, suspendered, tepidnesses, underexpose, undeveloped, unexpressed, unperceived, unrepressed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 65 70 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . . .--. . -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100101 01110000 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e e p e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0065 0070 0065 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387171827180 |
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