Instill vs Deepen - What's the difference?
instill | deepen |
To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
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
As verbs the difference between instill and deepen
is that instill is to cause a quality to become part of someone's nature while deepen is to make deep or deeper.instill
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Alternative forms
* instil UKVerb
(en verb)- It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
See also
* infusedeepen
English
Verb
(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.
