Thesaurus / thickening
FEEDBACK- Cancer
- cancroid
- excrescence
- fibrousness
- fungus
- lump
- mole
- outgrowth
- parasite
- polyp
- swelling
- wen
- fibrous tissue
- advance
- advancement
- expansion
- gain
- hike
- improvement
- increase
- production
- prosperity
- rise
- success
- surge
- aggrandizement
- augmentation
- boost
- buildup
- crop
- cultivation
- enlargement
- evolution
- extension
- flowering
- germination
- maturation
- multiplication
- produce
- proliferation
- sprouting
- stretching
- swell
- unfolding
- vegetation
- waxing
- widening
- beefing up
- evolvement
- fleshing out
- heightening
- maturing
- up
- upping
antonyms for thickening
MOST RELEVANT
- decline
- decrease
- failure
- halt
- loss
- stagnation
- stop
- worsening
- abridgment
- compression
- destruction
- reduction
- abatement
- diminishment
- lessening
- underdevelopment
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How to use thickening in a sentence
In people, chronic high blood pressure causes a thickening of the heart muscles.
HEADS UP! THE CARDIOVASCULAR SECRETS OF GIRAFFESARS STAFFMAY 30, 2021ARS TECHNICAAs a cloud of aerosolized bone dust particles darkened overhead, reinforced by the thickening smell of singed bone, I wondered how much of my donor’s body I was inhaling.
YOU CAN’T DISSECT A VIRTUAL CADAVER - ISSUE 99: UNIVERSALITYMICHAEL DENHAMMAY 5, 2021NAUTILUSOver time, a thickening crust of limestone grows to blanket and strengthen the web.
PROTECTING THE WORLD’S VANISHING CORAL REEFSARI DANIEL, PHD ’08APRIL 28, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWBeing student body president, you’re in the hot seat, and between the sort of thickening of my skin and the experiences I had, I finally was able to really just come to terms with the fact that there’s no path out of this.
‘I’M A SENATOR.’ SARAH MCBRIDE TAKES NO PRISONERS, NO GUFFISABELLE LEEAPRIL 17, 2021OZYParks notes that grinding old-fashioned oats at home is not a good substitute for commercial oat flour, which is finer and includes the other parts of the grain that serve a nutritional and thickening purpose.
GET TO KNOW YOUR OATS, AND ALL THE TYPES AND WAYS TO EAT THEMBECKY KRYSTALAPRIL 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTWhen the hern or bitron flies low, the air is gross, and thickening into showers.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 194, JULY 16, 1853VARIOUSA street car landed him within two blocks of the address on the tag, and Bud walked through thickening fog and dusk to the place.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWERThe glade was thickening with shadows, but the sunlight still marked the top of an elm and made glorious the zenith.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERNearer came the sounds and louder, as they spread towards the fort through thickening shadows and the white dews of night.
MENOTAHERNEST G. HENHAMSheet after sheet swept down the mountains like wind-driven clouds of mist thickening into water as they came.
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINEJOHN FOX, JR.WORDS RELATED TO THICKENING
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.