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| Main Entry: | deepen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make depth greater |
| Synonyms: | dig, dredge, excavate, expand, extend, hollow, dig out, scoop out, scrape out |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | deepen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more intense |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, develop, enhance, expand, extend, grow, heighten, increase, intensify, magnify, mount, redouble, reinforce, rise, rouse, strengthen, intensate |
| Antonyms: | lighten, pale, soften, quieten |
| Main Entry: | aggravate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to become worse |
| Synonyms: | complicate, deepen, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, heighten, increase, inflame, intensify, magnify, mount, rise, rouse, worsen |
| Notes: | to aggravate is to make something worse, while to exacerbate is to increase something's bitterness or harshness aggravate means 'to add to' an already troublesome or vexing matter or condition while irritate means 'to vex, annoy, or chafe' irritate means 'inflame' (originally 'excite, rouse'); aggravate means 'worsen' |
| Antonyms: | alleviate, help, improve, relieve, soothe |
| Main Entry: | amplify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase in size or effect |
| Synonyms: | add, augment, beef up*, boost, build up, deepen, develop, elaborate, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise, strengthen, stretch, supplement, swell, up, widen, flesh out, hike up, jack up, soup up |
| Antonyms: | abridge, compress, condense, contract, curtail, decrease, lessen, reduce, shorten, summarize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blacken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | darken |
| Synonyms: | befoul, blot, cloud, deepen, shade, smudge, soil, begrime, ebonize, grow dark, grow dim, ink, make dark |
| Antonyms: | bleach, lighten, whiten |
| Main Entry: | darken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become shaded, unlit |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, blacken, deepen, dim, eclipse, fog, gray, haze, murk, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, tone down*, cloud over, cloud up, make dim |
| Antonyms: | brighten, illuminate, lighten, whiten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | develop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expand, work out |
| Synonyms: | actualize, advance, amplify, augment, beautify, broaden, build up, cultivate, deepen, dilate, elaborate, enlarge, enrich, evolve, exploit, extend, finish, heighten, improve, intensify, lengthen, magnify, materialize, perfect, polish, promote, realize, refine, spread, strengthen, stretch, unfold, widen |
| Antonyms: | circumscribe, compress, confine, decrease, lessen, narrow |
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delve into; hollow out |
| Synonyms: | bore, break up, bulldoze, burrow, cat, channel, clean, concave, deepen, depress, discover, dredge, drill, drive, enter, excavate, exhume, go into, gouge, grub, harvest, investigate, mine, penetrate, pierce, pit, probe, produce, quarry, root, rout, sap, scoop, search, shovel, sift, spade, till, tunnel, turn over, uncover, undermine, unearth, dig down, fork out, hoe, root out, scoop out |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | gather |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gain, increase |
| Synonyms: | build, deepen, enlarge, expand, grow, heighten, intensify, rise, swell, thicken, wax |
| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add or grow |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annex, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, expand, extend, further, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, pad*, progress, proliferate, prolong, protract, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, sharpen, spread, step up, strengthen, supplement, swarm, swell, teem, thicken, triple, wax, widen, mark up, pullulate, slap on, snowball, tack on |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deplete, diminish, lose, subtract |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intensify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more forceful, severe |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, add to, aggrandize, aggravate, augment, beef up*, boost, brighten, build up, concentrate, darken, deepen, emphasize, enhance, escalate, exacerbate, exalt, heighten, increase, lighten, magnify, point, quicken, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, rouse, sharpen, spike*, step up, strengthen, stress, whet, add fuel, heat up, intensate, pour it on, set off, tone up |
| Antonyms: | calm, lower, slow, soothe, weaken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | magnify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enlarge, intensify |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, augment, bless, blow up, boost, build up, deepen, dignify, dilate, distend, enhance, ennoble, eulogize, exalt, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, redouble, rise, rouse, step up, sweeten, swell, hike up, intensate, jack up, jump up, run up |
| Antonyms: | decrease, diminish, lessen, weaken, miniaturize |
| Main Entry: | mount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, aggravate, augment, build, deepen, enhance, enlarge, escalate, expand, heighten, intensify, multiply, redouble, rise, rouse, swell, upsurge, wax, intensate, pile up |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, subside |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, add to, advance, aggravate, arise, ascend, augment, billow, build, bulge, climb, deepen, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, expand, heighten, improve, inflate, intensify, levitate, lift, magnify, mount, multiply, perk up, pick up, raise, redouble, rouse, soar, spread, swell, take off, upsurge, wax, go through the roof, go up, intensate, move up, pile up, speed up, stack up |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, lessen, lower, recede |
| Main Entry: | rouse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stimulate, excite |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, agitate, anger, animate, arouse, awaken, bug*, challenge, craze, deepen, disturb, enhance, enliven, exhilarate, foment, galvanize, heighten, incite, inflame, instigate, intensify, kindle, magnify, mount, move, needle, pep up*, pique, provoke, quicken, rally, redouble, rile, rise, startle, stir, trigger, urge, vivify, wake, whet, whip up*, work up, ask for it, bestir, fire up, get going, innervate, innerve, intensate, key up, make waves, steam up*, wake up, waken |
| Antonyms: | calm, dull, disenchant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shut out the light |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, blacken, cloud, conceal, cover, darken, deepen, dim, eclipse, gray, hide, mute, obscure, overshadow, protect, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shutter, tone down, umbrage, veil, be overcast, cast a shadow, cloud over, cloud up, inumbrate |
| Antonyms: | open |
| Main Entry: | thicken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set; make more dense |
| Synonyms: | add, buttress, cake, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curdle, deepen, enlarge, expand, freeze, harden, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen, swell, widen, clabber, gel, grow thick, inspissate |
| Antonyms: | dilute, liquefy, melt, thin, water down |
| Main Entry: | tone down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | moderate |
| Synonyms: | chill out*, cloud, dampen, darken, deepen, dim, mitigate, modulate, play down, reduce, restrain, shade, sober, soft-pedal*, soften, subdue, temper |
| Antonyms: | aggravate, increase, raise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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