1 [V] to become wider:
Her smile broadened.
2 to affect or make sth affect more people or things:
[VN] a promise to broaden access to higher education * The party needs to broaden its appeal to voters. [also V]
3 [VN] to increase your experience, knowledge, etc:
Few would disagree that travel broadens the mind (= helps you to understand other people's beliefs, customs, etc.) * Spending a year working in the city helped to broaden his horizons.
PHRASALVERBS
broaden out (of a road, river, etc.) to become wider
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for broaden is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is broaden a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, broaden is tagged as verb.
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