- intensify: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"
- make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it"
- become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
- deepening(a): accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk"
- To make deep or deeper; To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; To make lower in tone; To become deeper; To become lower in tone
- (deepened) become stronger; become worse
- (Deepening) "Used in describing the history of a low-pressure system or an area of cyclonic circulation, it means a decrease in the central pressure of the system. ...
- (Deepening) A reduction in the pressure or geopotential of a trough or cyclone.
- (Deepening) The process of studying the Holy Writings (usually Baha’i but sometimes those of other religions as well).
- (deepening) a meeting held for the purpose of deepening one's understanding of something, generally the Writings of the Bahá'í Faith. today, deepening meetings have largely been replaced by study circles.
- (deepening) evening, feasting, seething, sweetening, weakling
- The deepening phase takes the subject from a very relaxed state into the fully "hypnotized" state, where conscious thinking is minimized.
- To increase the distance below a specified reference datum.