Verb

(head)

(deepen)

Verb

(en verb)

To make deep or deeper

They deepened the well by 200 feet.

To make darker or more intense; to darken

The event deepened the prevailing gloom.

To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree

News of her death deepened my sorrow.

To make lower in tone

The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.

To become deeper

The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.

To become darker or more intense

The crisis deepened in the following weeks.

To become lower in tone

His voice deepened with age.

(defn)

Verb

(head)

(explore)

Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.