Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwaɪdən/
widen (widens, present participle widening; 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.
- (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
- She widened his trousers for him.
- (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
- The police widened their enquiries.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- Antonyms: narrow
- to widen a
short
variable to anint
variable
- French: s’élargir
- Italian: allargarsi
- Russian: расширя́ться
- French: élargir
- Italian: allargere
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