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v. To make or become wide or wider.

v. To become wide or wider.

v. To make wide or wider.

v. To let out clothes to a larger size.

v. To broaden or extend in scope or range.

v. To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of

verb-intransitive. To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

To make wide or wider; extend in breadth; expand: as, to widen a street.

To throw open.

In knitting, to make larger by increasing the number of stitches: opposed to narrow.

To grow wide or wider; enlarge; extend itself; expand; broaden.

In knitting, to increase the number of stitches: as, to widen at the third row.

Widely; wide.

v. extend in scope or range or area

v. make (clothes) larger

v. make wider

v. become broader or wider or more extensive

"In comparing losses, use the term widen or narrow rather than increase or decrease."

widened    widening    widens   

change    vary    alter   

enlarge    expand    extend    spacious    roomy    comprehensive    astray    inclusive    expansive   

widened    widening   

enlarge    spread    extend   

Dryden    Haydn    Heiden    Leyden    Poseidon    Sidon    lyden    riden   

soften    crystallisation    tighten    broaden    ever-widening    weaken    shading    lower    strengthen    tensing