thicken

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verb

1. make thick or thicker (Freq. 2)
- Thicken the sauce
- inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch
• Syn:
inspissate
• Ant:
thin
• Derivationally related forms:
inspissation (for: inspissate), thickener, thickening
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Group:
inspissate
• Cause:
inspissate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. become thick or thicker (Freq. 2)
- The sauce thickened
- The egg yolk will inspissate
• Syn:
inspissate
• Ant:
thin
• Derivationally related forms:
inspissation (for: inspissate)
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Verb Group:
inspissate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. make viscous or dense
- thicken the sauce by adding flour
• Syn:
inspissate
• Derivationally related forms:
inspissation (for: inspissate), thickener, thickening
• Hypernyms:
change integrity
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something