1 to become wider; to make sth wider:
[V] Her eyes widened in surprise. * Here the stream widens into a river. * [VN] They may have to widen the road to cope with the increase in traffic.
2 to become larger in degree or range; to make sth larger in degree or range:
[V] the widening gap between rich and poor * [VN] We plan to widen the scope of our existing activities by offering more language courses. * The legislation will be widened to include all firearms.
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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 widen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is widen a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, widen is tagged as verb.
Does widen appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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