deepening's Usage Examples:

It is not in your nature to care for anything beyond you, she said, frown deepening.

Over the course of the series, Scully's initial mistrust - almost contempt - of Mulder is replaced by a deepening trust and even affection.

AFTERGLOW, a broad high arch of whitish or rosy light appearing occasionally in the sky above the highest clouds in the hour of deepening twilight, or reflected from the high snowfields in mountain regions long after sunset.

She knew the color was deepening in her cheeks.

It marked the deepening of a hatred which might have been overcome.

"The master streams of the present have inherited their channels from the drainage systems of the Cretaceous lowland, and though raised athwart the courses of the lowland trunk streams the great arch was developed so slowly that these channels could be maintained through pari passu deepening.

Sofia glared at him, her embarrassment deepening at the look the men around the fire gave her.

Watase has shown, in a very convincing way, how by deepening the pit-like set of cells beneath a simple lens the more complex ommatidia of the compound eyes of Crustacea and Hexapoda may be derived from such a condition as that presented in the lateral eyes of Limulus and Scorpio.

He smiled warmly when he met her gaze, a twinkle of amusement deepening the amber color to brown.

The frightened creature is as ill prepared for the season as I and scurries about frantically in the deepening snow in search of sustenance.

He tucked his hands in his back pockets and shuffled his feet, the color in his face deepening.

Such knowledge floods the soul unseen with a soundless tidal wave of deepening thought.

Synonyms:

evolution, development,

Antonyms:

decline, cenogenesis, devolution,