Widening

//ˈwaɪdənɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The action of the verb widen.

    "She looked up sleepily and asked me what it was, and with the very words I thought she drew in her breath with a widening of the nostrils and seemed to come suddenly and fully alive."

  2. 2
    the act of making something wider wordnet
  3. 3
    a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park wordnet
  4. 4
    an increase in width wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of widen form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Growing wider or farther apart. not-comparable

    "The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems."

Synonyms

All synonyms
accessaccessionaccretionaccrualaccruementaccumulation

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"He is the first national politician to be named in a widening corruption scandal."

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