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Widen

verb

(past & past part. widened; pres. part. widening)

Become broader or wider or more extensive.

Make (clothes) larger. Synonym: let out.

Make wider.

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

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... is a breach, which is already wide, and tends to widen, between the class which is hard at work making its fortune and the class which has either made its fortune or has got all it desires, which is the same thing as a fortune. There is a great deal of work which this latter would like to do. There ...

— Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 • Edwin Lawrence Godkin

... by the legislature of Carolina, served to widen the difference. The Yamassees being expelled from Indian land, the assembly passed two acts to appropriate those lands gained by conquest for the use and encouragement of such of his majesty's subjects as should come over and settle ...

— An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Colonies Of South Carolina And Georgia, Volume 1 • Alexander Hewatt

... waters of my native stream Are glancing in the sun's warm beam; From sail-urged keel and flashing oar The circles widen to its shore; And cultured field and peopled town Slope to its willowed margin down. Yet, while this morning breeze is bringing The home-life sound of school-bells ringing, And rolling wheel, and rapid jar Of the fire-winged and steedless car, And voices from ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... the situation. To them it meant a division of the Republican party vastly more damaging than the one in 1866. Opposition to Grant's candidacy also threatened to widen the breach. The Conservatives, led by Thurlow Weed, wishing to break the intolerant control of the Radicals by securing a candidate free from factional bias, had pronounced for the Soldier's nomination for President as early as July, 1867,[1152] and although ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... and clear, and her fascinating narrative cannot fail to widen the horizon of her readers in more ways than ...

— Sight to the Blind • Lucy Furman

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