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widening

/ˈwaɪdənɪŋ/

widening adjective: growing wider or farther apart. Also the present participle and gerund of widen.

Adjective

widening (not comparable)

  1. Growing wider or farther apart.
    • The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems.
    • Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; […]1920, William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

Noun

widening (plural widenings)

  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.1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla
    • 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

Also used as

widening is also the present participle and gerund of widen.

widening meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam

widening in Hindi

चौड़ीकरण, चौड़ा करना

widening in Tamil

அகலப்படுத்துதல்

widening in Marathi

रुंदीकरण

widening in Malayalam

വീതികൂട്ടൽ, വീതികുറയ്ക്കൽ, വീതി കൂട്ടുന്നു
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widening in Punjabi
ਚੌਡ਼ਾ ਕਰਨਾ

Forms of widening

pluralwidenings

Words formed from widening

Phrases with widening

Questions about widening

What does widening mean?
Widening means growing wider or farther apart.
What is widening in Hindi?
Widening in Hindi is चौड़ीकरण, चौड़ा करना. See Widening meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is widening?
Widening can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce widening?
Widening is pronounced /ˈwaɪdənɪŋ/.

Words near widening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widening (page history and authors); widening (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); widening (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); widening (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); widening (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); widening (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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