Thicken has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Verb
1
make thick or thicker
"Thicken the sauce"
"inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
2
become thick or thicker
"The sauce thickened"
"The egg yolk will inspissate"
3
make viscous or dense
"thicken the sauce by adding flour"
4
To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
Example Sentences
"Thicken the sauce"
verb
"inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
verb
"The sauce thickened"
verb
"The egg yolk will inspissate"
verb
"thicken the sauce by adding flour"
verb
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