Word Meanings - THICKENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THICKENING)

• Inspissation
• Thickening
• turbidity
• incrassation
• densification

Related words: (words related to THICKENING)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• TURBIDITY
  Turbidness.
• INSPISSATION
  The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.
• INCRASSATION
  1. The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker. 2. The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne.
• THICKEN
  To make thick . Specifically: -- To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. To strengthen; to confirm. And this may to thicken