to become thicker; to make sth thicker:
[V] Keep stirring until the sauce has thickened. * It was a dangerous journey through thickening fog. * [VN] You can thicken the stew with flour.
IDIOMS see PLOTn.
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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 thicken is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is thicken a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, thicken is tagged as verb.
Does thicken appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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