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Deepening vs Furthering - What's the difference?

deepening | furthering |

As verbs the difference between deepening and furthering

is that deepening is while furthering is .

As nouns the difference between deepening and furthering

is that deepening is the act of becoming deeper while furthering is the act by which something is furthered; furtherance.

deepening

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of becoming deeper.
  • * 1972 , H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future (volume 1, page 408)
    • 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

    furthering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
  • * (George Eliot)
    • the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.