Zoe Foster Blake

I saturate freshly washed hair with thickening spray (R+Co). Then, using a Denman/styler brush and my Parlux, I brush and blow-dry the hair all over my head, in every direction, until it's 80 percent dry. This gives atomic body and a great foundation for styling in the morning.

Australian Author

Paulina Porizkova

From Kevyn Aucoin, I learned about the power of eyebrows. He was an eyebrow freak, and rightly so because there's nothing in your face that changes you more. You can quite visibly lift your eye with a higher-placed eyebrow, or if you thicken or thin it.

Czechoslovakian Model

Carlos Ponce

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

Puerto Rican Actor

Claire Saffitz

Lemon curd is a basic custard, meaning it's thickened by eggs. Although many curd recipes call for just yolks, I prefer to use a combination of whole eggs and yolks to add a bit of lightness.

American Editor

Jenna Wortham

The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can't be ruined - the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce.

American Journalist

Marie Helvin

For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.

American Model

Hildur Gudnadottir

Singing is something that I have done all my life, but what I did on my first two records was to hide the vocals. They're there to thicken the web of the cello.

Icelander Musician

Greg Rutherford

I always start the day with a protein shake: protein powder mixed with water, peanut butter, and yoghurt to thicken it up.

British Athlete

P. J. O'Rourke

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

American Comedian

Rebecca West

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Irish Author

Used often in cooking to describe the process of making a liquid ingredient denser.

Cooking Context

Implies a change in texture that can be seen or felt.

Physical Change

The change generally happens gradually, not instantly.

Gradual Process

In stories, it often indicates that events are becoming more complex or interesting.

Narrative Suspense

Can signal that a situation or emotion is becoming more powerful or serious.

Emotional Intensity

Used when outcomes are becoming less predictable.

Uncertain Outcome

Refers to a growing number of items, people, or elements.

Increase in Quantity

The change is often visible, like a crowd becoming denser.

Visible Changes

Indicates a gathering force or momentum in social situations or movements.

Gathering Momentum

 another you would thicken the crust you'd uplift it that's why you get you know you get seashells up on Mount Everest it's not a flood it was pushed up there we understood mountains under compression but we could not understand why we had a mountain under tension should not be until one of my colleagues said it looks to me like a thermal

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 These mountains of maize inspired numerous corn concoctions. Cornstarch could be used as a thickening agent for everything from gasoline to glue or processed into a low-cost sweetener known as High-Fructose Corn Syrup. Maize quickly became one of the cheapest animal feeds worldwide. This allowed for inexpensive meat production,

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 that is deep fried and then drenched in syrup which yes it is as good as it sounds and yes it has also caused thickening of the arteries as it sounds as well so that's what you would have if you know an African side of things we'd have that it depends on your culture but you know generally it's more just about

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 sugar and then that's when you actually use the materials such as sugar you add another meaning to it is something synesthetic something that are happening you know you're thinking of a taste it actually the plot thickens right there when I start thinking about taste and how you could infuse the sensation of

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 but now after a week the bristles are already beginning to thicken into a tiny spines we had to go to their main laboratories in the capital tanner narev and there i was privileged to see one of the most remarkable creatures in the world

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 and height to increase. In women, estrogen secreted from the ovaries signals the start of adulthood. It helps the body develop, makes the hips widen, and thickens the womb’s lining, preparing the body for menstruation or pregnancy.

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 actually thickens we lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers extroverts lie more than introverts men lie eight times more about themselves and they do other people women lie more to protect other people if you're in an

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 The global scientific community man-made global warming pollution, put into the atmosphere, thickening this, is trapping more of the outgoing infrared. You all know that. At the last

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 back here in the Anthropocene the mist is thickening to drizzle the bedrock darkens deepening the contrast but shall

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 Necks are protected by specially thickened skin. These fights have no rules.

Thicken

To make or become dense, substantial or solid.

Often appears as...

To grow or make more intense, complicated or serious.

Often appears as...

To make or become more packed or concentrated; increase in quantity or number.

Often appears as...

Cooking Context

Physical Change

Gradual Process

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