widens

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

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