Deepened vs Deepening - What's the difference?
deepened | deepening |
(deepen)
To make deep or deeper
To make darker or more intense; to darken
To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
To make lower in tone
To become deeper
To become darker or more intense
To become lower in tone
The act of becoming deeper.
* 1972 , H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future (volume 1, page 408)
As verbs the difference between deepened and deepening
is that deepened is (deepen) while deepening is .As a noun deepening is
the act of becoming deeper.deepened
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(head)deepen
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(en verb)- They deepened the well by 200 feet.
- The event deepened the prevailing gloom.
- News of her death deepened my sorrow.
- The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.
- The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.
- The crisis deepened in the following weeks.
- His voice deepened with age.
Anagrams
* English ergative verbsdeepening
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(en noun)- Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain