thicken

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Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or\n until thickened.

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Quick take

make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"

verb

become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"

verb

make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thicken.

verb

make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"

verb

become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"

verb

make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour"

Example sentences

Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or\n until thickened.

Stir until the mixture begins\n to thicken and becomes creamy and cloudy.

That is simply the rules of engagement on the internet, so I thicken my hide and continue on.

As an example from the book, the common "grandmother" way to thicken gravies and other sauces is to use flour or corn starch.

If your velocity stays low from the start, you never have to worry about heat building up. As the descent continued, eventually the atmosphere would thicken to the point that the balloon provided actual buoyancy, and subsequently a controlled descent could be made.

It ended up thickening a bit over time, but the end\n result was about right I think.\n\n There was a bit of oil on top and it was pretty heavy, so I'd reduce the butter\n a bit.

Plus, when a company can increase its revenue so much and not have its profits go up, it just seems like a business model that relies on such thin margins that an attempt to thicken them leads to great loss of business.--Again, Facebook very well might justify that price. If they're able to greatly increase their monetization per user, that P/E ratio could drop fast.

[18]The oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, who remarked that certain "barbarous nations" knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".