deepen

Other forms of deepen

past tense

deepenned·

present participle

deepenning·

third person

deepens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deepen

What does deepen mean?

deepen means "make more intense, stronger, or more marked". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deepen?

deepen has 2 syllables: dee-pen. The stress falls on "dee". In IPA it is /ˈdipən/.

What is another word for deepen?

Close synonyms include intensify, compound, heighten, intensify, change. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deepen a common word?

deepen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.