widened

Meaning

of Widen

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

extended elongated broaden magnified varicose elmwood expanded increased enlarged stretched amplified heightened grew thickened distended
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Antonyms

narrowed

Phrases with the word

widened piece

Examples

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. Albert Schweitzer

The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter. Alexander Graham Bell

Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing. Laurell K. Hamilton

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. Robert Louis Stevenson

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. Max Bill