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widenest

widenest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of widen.

Meaning of widen

Verb

widen (third-person singular simple present widens, present participle widening, simple past and past participle widened)

  1. (intransitive) To become wide or wider.
    • His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
  2. (transitive) To make wide or wider.
    • The widening works include the rebuilding of the skew bridge near Northwood to take four tracks, and to enable the Rickmansworth Road to be widened to 60 ft.; […].1959 November, “Notes and News: Harrow-Rickmansworth Widening”, in Railway Magazine, page 802
  3. (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
    • She widened his trousers for him.
  4. (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
    • The police widened their enquiries.
  5. (transitive) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
    • to widen a short variable to an int variable
    Antonyms:
    narrow

See all 6 meanings of widen

Origin of widenest

widen + -est

Questions about widenest

What is widenest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Widenest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of widen.

Words near widenest in the dictionary

  1. widened up
  2. widener
  3. wideners
  4. wideness
  5. widenesses
  6. widenest
  7. wideneth
  8. widening
  9. widening conversion
  10. widening conversions
  11. widening someone's horizons

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