thickened

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
thickened
    adj 1: made or having become thick; "thickened bronchial
           arteries"
    2: having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through
       wear; "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands"
       [syn: {calloused}, {callous}, {thickened}]
    3: made thick in consistency; "flour-thickened gravy"; "dust-
       thickened saliva"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thickened}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Thickening}.]
   To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: 
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   (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
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   (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken
       cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
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   (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.]
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             And this may to thicken other proofs. --Shak.
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   (d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "thickened":
      adhesive, amylaceous, caked, cakey, clabbered, clammy, clotted,
      coagulated, congealed, curded, curdled, doughy, gaumy, gelatinized,
      gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose,
      glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous,
      gummy, heavy, incrassate, inspissate, inspissated, jelled, jellied,
      jellylike, lumpish, lumpy, mucilaginous, pasty, ropy, slabby,
      slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky,
      tenacious, thick, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose,
      viscous

    

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