1 if an emotion or a feeling deepens, or if sth deepens it, it becomes stronger:
[V] Their friendship soon deepened into love. [also VN]
2 to become worse; to make sth worse:
[V] Warships were sent in as the crisis deepened. * a deepening economic recession [also VN]
3 [V] to become deeper; to make sth deeper:
[V] The water deepened gradually. * His frown deepened. * [VN] There were plans to deepen a stretch of the river.
4 [VN] to improve your knowledge or understanding of sth:
an opportunity for students to deepen their understanding of different cultures
5 [V, VN] if colour or light deepens or if sth deepens it, it becomes darker:
deepening shadows
6 if a sound or voice deepens or if you deepen it, it becomes lower or you make it lower:
[V] His voice deepened to a growl. [also VN]
7 [V] if your breathing deepens, you breathe more deeply than usual
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for deepen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is deepen a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, deepen is tagged as verb.
Does deepen appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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