Word.ws English Dictionary

thickens up

thickens up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thicken up.

Meaning of thicken up

Verb

thicken up (third-person singular simple present thickens up, present participle thickening up, simple past and past participle thickened up)

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To become or make (something) thick (either in width or in viscosity).

Questions about thickens up

What is thickens up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Thickens up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thicken up.

Words near thickens up in the dictionary

  1. thickening times
  2. thickening up
  3. thickeningly
  4. thickenings
  5. thickens
  6. thickens up
  7. thicker
  8. thicker around the middle
  9. thicker than a Snickers
  10. thicker-skinned
  11. thickest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thickens up (page history and authors); thicken up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thickens up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thickens_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.