Verb

To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.

An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.

Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.

* Milton

In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.

* Motley

The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.

(chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

Verb

(en verb)

To make thicker (in the sense of wider).

To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).

To become thicker (in the sense of wider).

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz

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To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).

To strengthen; to confirm.

* (William Shakespeare)

And this may help to thicken other proofs.

To make more frequent.