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thickened

thickened

2.7
Not runny after adding something like flour to a sauce
  • adjective
  • /ˈθɪkənd/
translation icon : espeso
  • The sauce has thickened after simmering for an hour.

It's it's basically just cream and like thickened cream.

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Examples

  • It's basically a tube with somewhat thickened walls.

  • If you make these different kinds of thickened food for proteins, what you do is you heat them up.

  • So huckleberry juice thickened with the alter tacks, put into a mold and frozen.

  • She added cornstarch to the soup to create a thickened texture.

  • The cream thickened as it cooled down in the refrigerator.

Synonyms

thick
vsthickened
88 1.0

Having a solid wide body or wide arms and legs

refers to change in consistency rather than body shape
coagulated
vsthickened
  • Specialized
7.0

A liquid that becomes thick or solid

becomes thicker generally not necessarily fully solid
congealed
vsthickened
5.8

A liquid or soft thing that becomes thick and partly solid as it cools

becomes thicker due to any process rather than only cooling

How Thick

viscous
11 6.1
thickened
2.7
thin
420 1.0

Surface Forms

thickened positive

Morphology

thickened = thicken (transparent) = thick + en + ed

Formed by adding the past-participle/adjectival suffix '-ed' to the verb 'thicken' (thick + -en), so the relation to 'thick' is direct and regular.

Etymology

Thickened comes from the simple word thick meaning 'not thin' and the ending -en meaning 'to become' or 'to make'. Think of adding flour to a sauce or paint drying: the liquid 'becomes thick', so thickened means it has become thicker because of a process or an added substance.