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/brˈɔdənɪŋ/ /brˈɔdnɪŋ/ Listen

Broadening

noun

The act of making something wider. Synonym: widening.

The action of making broader.

An increase in width. Synonym: widening.

Broaden

verb

(past & past part. broadened; pres. part. broadening)

Make broader.

Extend in scope or range or area. Synonyms: extend, widen. "Widen the range of applications" , "Broaden your horizon" , "Extend your backyard"

Vary in order to spread risk or to expand. Synonyms: branch out, diversify.

Become broader.

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"Broadening" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fields of communication and commerce was the United States becoming increasingly and intimately related to the remainder of the world, and the extent to which this change supplemented the effect of the war with Spain in broadening the American international outlook was a matter ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... highest duty; at the same time it is one of its privileges. Foreigners and idiots cannot serve. Doctors, soldiers, journalists, clergymen, and others, besides those who are deaf, blind, or otherwise disabled, are exempted. The experience of serving on a jury may be annoying but it is broadening and gives an opportunity of seeing human nature in a way that few appreciate. To serve on a jury is to become a part of the judicial system of the State and for the time being to belong to the ...

— The Man in Court • Frederic DeWitt Wells

... excellent chief justice of his native New York in the old colonial days, and, like Inglis, was a very ardent Loyalist. He respected all reasonable French-Canadian peculiarities. But he favoured the British-Constitutional way of 'broadening down from precedent to precedent' rather than the French way of referring to a supposedly infallible written regulation. We shall soon meet him as a far-seeing statesman. But he well deserves an honoured place in Canadian history for his legal services ...

— The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton • William Wood

... frogs, a sex-call; but it was the beginning of what was destined to play a very important part in the evolution of the mind. In the course of ages the significance of the voice broadened out; it became a parental call; it became an infant's cry. Broadening still, it became a very useful means of recognition among kindred, especially in the dark and in the intricacies of the forest. Ages passed, and the voice rose on another turn of the evolutionary spiral to be expressive of particular emotions beyond the immediate circle of sex—emotions ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

... Indians believe, or what such people as the Tanners are taught. They have but little mind, and would scarcely know the difference; but you can readily see that with such a primitive, unenlightened man at the head of religious affairs, there could scarcely be much broadening and real religious growth. Ignorance, of course, holds sway out here. I fancy you will find that to be the case soon enough. What in the world ever led you to come to a field like this to labor? Surely there must have been many more congenial places open to such as ...

— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill

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