deepening

Synonyms for deepening

verb make depth greater

adjective. becoming more intense

c.1600, from deep (adj.) + -en (1). Related: Deepened; deepening. The earlier verb had been simply deep, from Old English diepan.

The dispatch was long, and he read it with a deepening frown.

He noted with anxiety the lines that were deepening on her face.

Lights flashed furtively to and fro through the deepening twilight.

He paused, and silence reigned once more in the deepening gloom.

He was traveling toward the deepening night, and the day of his life was done.

She listened with a deepening frown, rather pale, her head bowed.

She was growing angry, as he saw by the deepening frown, the heightened colour.

His bewildered eyes glimmered, staring at us in the deepening dusk.

The people in the court disappeared in the deepening shadows.

It was the organist who stood near him in the deepening shadows.