- Expand - Grow deeper - Intensify - Lower down - Make more intense - To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to
sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. - To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event
deepened the prevailing gloom.
- Leave out - Strife; contention. - To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to
abate; to beat down; to lower. - To allow by way of abatement or deduction. - To leave out; to except. - To remove. - To deprive of.