From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deepen \Deep"en\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Deepened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deepening}.]
1. To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. --Addison.
2. To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.
You must deepen your colors. --Peacham.
3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
4. To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.
Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: {deepening(a)}, {gathering(a)}, {thickening(a)}]
noun
1: a process of becoming deeper and more profound
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "deepening": accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, amplification, annoyance, augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deliberate aggravation, depression, deterioration, digging, drilling, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation, excavation, explosion, heating-up, heightening, increase, information explosion, intensification, irritation, lowering, magnification, mining, pickup, population explosion, probing, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement, sharpening, sinkage, sinking, souring, speedup, step-up, strengthening, tightening, tunneling, worsening
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