widen
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
PIE word |
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*dwóh₁ |
From wide + -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
widen (third-person singular simple present widens, present participle widening, simple past and past participle widened)
- (intransitive) To become wide or wider.
- His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
- (transitive) To make wide or wider.
- 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
- (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
- She widened his trousers for him.
- (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
- 2007 August 6, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba's CENESEX proposes ground-breaking transsexual rights”, in Workers World[2]:
- Correspondent Gerardo Arreola interviewed Castro Espín for the Jan. 9, 2006, issue of La Jornada about the move to widen rights for transsexuals.
- The police widened their enquiries.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- Antonym: narrow
- to widen a
short
variable to anint
variable
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to become wider
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to make wider
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to let out clothes
to broaden or extend
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Anagrams[edit]
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