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thickened

thickened

7 2.7
Not runny after adding something like flour to a sauce
  • adjective
  • /ˈθɪkənd/
: 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
28 1.0

Having a solid wide body or wide arms and legs

refers to change in consistency rather than body shape
congealed
vsthickened
4 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
coagulated
vsthickened
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A liquid that becomes thick or solid

becomes thicker generally not necessarily fully solid

How Thick

viscous
12 6.1
thickened
7 2.7
thin
422 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.