widen

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1. widen - Verb

2. Widen - Proper noun

Meaning

To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.

To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

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To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days. John F. Kennedy

The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. Adam Smith

All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt. E. M. Forster

The rural and urban populations does not necessarily drift downward in the process of economic growth: indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that it is stable at best, and tends to widen because per capita productivity in urban pursuits increases more rapidly than in agriculture. Simon Kuznets

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold J. Toynbee

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read. V. S. Naipaul

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