inspissate
1. make viscous or dense
- thicken the sauce by adding flour
• Syn:
thicken
• Derivationally related forms:
inspissation, thickener (for: thicken), thickening (for: thicken)
• Hypernyms:
change integrity
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. make thick or thicker
- Thicken the sauce
- inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch
• Syn:
thicken
• Ant:
thin (for: thicken)
• Derivationally related forms:
inspissation, thickener (for: thicken), thickening (for: thicken)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Group:
thicken
• Cause:
thicken
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. become thick or thicker
- The sauce thickened
- The egg yolk will inspissate
• Syn:
thicken
• Ant:
thin (for: thicken)
• Derivationally related forms:
inspissation
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Verb Group:
thicken
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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