Thickened

Definitions: Thickened

Thickened

Adjective

1. Made or having become thick; "thickened bronchial arteries".

2. Having skin made tough and thick through wear.

3. Made thick in consistency; "flour-thickened gravy"; "dust-thickened saliva".

Date "thickened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1640. (references)

Synonym: Thickened

Synonym: calloused (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Thickened

English words defined with "thickened": Apium graveolens rapaceum ♦ bechamel, bechamel sauce, bladder sphincter, blancmange, brown sauce, bug, bulb, Burhinus oedicnemus ♦ caudex, celeriac, celery root, chocolate pudding, clabber, Clitellus, clogged, clot, clotted, coagulate, costa ♦ gumbo ♦ Hemelytrum, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, Heteracanth ♦ Incrassated, Inspissate, Ischial callosity ♦ knob, knob celery ♦ musculus sphincter vesicae ♦ node ♦ pan gravy, Placentiform, Primitive streak, Pseudo-bulb, Pterostigma, pterygium, pudding ♦ root celery ♦ sauce Espagnole, Sclerenchyma, Sclerotic parenchyma, Seminose, Spissated, Splenium, stock, stone curlew ♦ tapioca pudding, temporal bone, thickening, thick-knee, turnip-rooted celery ♦ vanilla pudding ♦ Whipworm, white sauce, Wing case. (references)

Specialty definitions using "thickened": Acoustic Maculae ♦ Bowen's disease ♦ CLARIFIER OPERATOR ♦ DIPPER, CLOCK AND WATCH HANDS, drop panel, dropped panel, drum filter ♦ Endarterectomy, Carotid ♦ Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia ♦ Hyperkeratosis, Epidermolytic ♦ iliotibial tract, inside upset ♦ Linitis Plastica ♦ placodiomorph, prosoplectenchyma ♦ root tuber, round-headed buttress dam ♦ Skillygolee, sloughing-off cone ♦ thickened water, tholus. (references)

Etymologies containing "thickened": Spissated. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Thickened

Domain	Title
Books	The Plot That Thickened (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Thickened

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	Left ventricle has been cut open to display characteristic severe thickening of mitral valve, thickened chordae tendineae, and hypertrophied left ventricular myocardium. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.		Aorta has been removed to show thickened, fused aortic valve leaflets and opened coronary arteries from above. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.
	Left atrium has been opened to show thickened mitral valve leaflets from above. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.		Opened left ventricle of heart shows a thickened, dilated left ventricle with subendocardial fibrosis manifested as increased whiteness of endocardium. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.
	An alveolar duct is seen in the center. The alveoli are poorly developed and have markedly thickened walls. Macrophages are present in the alveolar spaces; H&E stain; magnification 100X.Credit: CDC.		Microgametocytes are usually smaller and less common than macrogametocytes. They are crescent shaped and have a diffuse chromatin, while macrogametocytes have thickened chromatin.Credit: CDC.
	Microgametocytes are usually smaller and less common than macrogametocytes. They are crescent shaped, and have a diffuse chromatin, while macrogametocytes have thickened chromatin.Credit: CDC.		Microgametocytes are usually smaller and less common than macrogametocytes. They are crescent shaped and have a diffuse chromatin, while macrogametocytes have thickened chromatin.Credit: CDC.
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Use in Literature: Thickened

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Moreover, he was believed to be dead, and that thickened the obscurity which surrounded him.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The rain thickened, and then passed away.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Thickened

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		With time, scarring, or fibrosis, of the arteries takes place, and they become stiff as well as thickened. (references)
		In some cases, water may have to be thickened with commercial additives to give it the consistency of syrup or honey. (references)
		In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the growth and arrangement of muscle fibers are abnormal, leading to thickened heart walls. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Thickened

"Thickened" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 35.61% of the time. "Thickened" is used about 132 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 (past participle)	35.61%	47	49,740
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	44	51,500
Lexical Verb (past tense)	30.3%	40	54,274
Noun (proper)	0.76%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	132	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Thickened

Expressions using "thickened": thickened water ♦ well thickened. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "thickened": egg-thickened, flour-thickened, semi-thickened.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thickened

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
thickened uterus	8
thickened endometrium	7
thickened liquid	3
lining thickened uterine	2
thickened toenails	2
blood thickened	2
thickened water	2
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Modern Translations: Thickened

Language		Translations for "thickened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		变厚 (thicken, thickening). (various references)

Danish		fortykket olie (blown oil, thick oil, thickened oil), blæst olie (blown oil, condensed oil, oxidized oil, thick oil, thickened oil). (various references)

Dutch		verdikte olie (blown oil, thick oil, thickened oil), kleverig water (thick water, thickened water, viscous water), ingedikte olie (blown oil, thick oil, thickened oil). (various references)

Finnish		kiisseli (thickened fruit juice). (various references)

French		sirop de raisins secs (thickened extract of raisins), renflement (thickened region), huile épaissie (thick oil, thickened oil), eau visqueuse (thick water, thickened water). (various references)

German		verdickten (thickens), verdickte. (various references)

Greek		σταφιδοσάκχαρο (syrup of raisins, thickened extract of raisins), σταφιδίνη (syrup of raisins, thickened extract of raisins), ιξώδες υγρόν (thick water, thickened water, viscous water), παχύρευστο λάδι (blown oil, thick oil, thickened oil), παχύ λάδι (blown oil, thick oil, thickened oil). (various references)

Hebrew		מעובה (condensed, dense). (various references)

Italian		olio denso (blown oil, thick oil, thickened oil). (various references)

Korean		두껍게 하는. (various references)

Pig Latin		ickenedthay

Portuguese		óleo pesado (blown oil, fuel oil, heavy oil, low gravity oil, thick oil, thickened oil), água viscosa (thick water, thickened water, viscous water). (various references)

Spanish		aceite espeso (blown oil, thick oil, thickened oil). (various references)

Swedish		redd (anchorage, moorage, mooring, roads, roadstead). (various references)

Ukranian		що став товстішим, згущений (clotted, concentrated, condensed, evaporated), потовщений. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Thickened

Misspellings
	"Thickened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Thicknet. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Thickened"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thickened" (pronounced thi"kund)
5	-i" k u n d	chickened, quickened, sickened.
4	-k u n d	awakened, beckoned, blackened, darkened, likened, millisecond, nanosecond, reawakened, reckoned, second, slackened, weakened.
3	-u n d	abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, bargained, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, moistened, moribund, motioned, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, rationed, reasoned, rechristened, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, siphoned, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, widened, wizened, worsened.
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Anagrams: Thickened

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-k-n-t"
	-2 letters: chedite, chinked, enticed, kitchen, necktie, thicken.
	-3 letters: chined, deceit, decent, detick, edenic, endite, entice, etched, ethnic, hented, hinted, inched, itched, kithed, necked, niched, nicked, teched, techie, theine, thence, ticked.
	-4 letters: cheek, chide, chine, chink, cited, deice, diene, ditch, eched, edict, ethic, hence, hiked, inked, kench, ketch, kited, kithe, kneed, niche, niece, teind, tench.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-k-n-t"
	+5 letters: chickenhearted.
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