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Widening   /wˈaɪdənɪŋ/   Listen
Widening

noun
1.
An increase in width.  Synonym: broadening.
2.
A part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park.  Synonym: turnout.
3.
The act of making something wider.  Synonym: broadening.


Widen

verb
(past & past part. widened; pres. part. widening)
1.
Become broader or wider or more extensive.
2.
Make (clothes) larger.  Synonym: let out.
3.
Make wider.
4.
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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"Widening" Quotes from Famous Books



... production of power in excess of current needs;[644] places of historical interest;[645] land taken for the purpose of exchange with a railroad company for a portion of its right of way, required for widening a highway;[646] land by a railway for a spur track;[647] establishment by a municipality of a public hack stand upon the driveway maintained by a railroad upon its own terminal grounds to afford ingress and egress to its patrons.[648] Likewise, damages ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... leave the valley and enter another short canyon, very narrow at first, but widening below as the canyon walls increase in height. Here we discover the mouth of a beautiful little creek coming down through its narrow water-worn cleft. Just at its entrance there is a park of two or three hundred acres, walled on every side by almost vertical cliffs hundreds ...
— Canyons of the Colorado • J. W. Powell
... hide his emotion and on his face was a light as of one who sees a great glory widening and deepening down the vista of ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... flight from the sharp Sierras of the Snows to the curled, red and ochre, uncomforted, bare ribs of Waban. Midway of the groove runs a burrowing, dull river, nearly a hundred miles from where it cuts the lava flats of the north to its widening in a thick, tideless pool of a lake. Hereabouts the ranges have no foothills, but rise up steeply from the bench lands above the river. Down from the Sierras, for the east ranges have almost no rain, pour glancing white floods toward the lowest land, and all beside them lie the campoodies, ...
— The Land Of Little Rain • Mary Hunter Austin
... and understood well its tendency to change its channel, in places, from time to time. He set much store accordingly by this canal. General McClernand had been, therefore, directed before I went to Young's Point to push the work of widening and deepening this canal. After my arrival the work was diligently pushed with about 4,000 men—as many as could be used to advantage—until interrupted by a sudden rise in the river that broke a dam at the upper end, which had been put there to keep the water out until the excavation ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant


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