Word Finder - widen

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To become wide or wider.

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His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.

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To make wide or wider.

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To let out clothes to a larger size.

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She widened his trousers for him.

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To broaden or extend in scope or range.

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The police widened their enquiries.

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To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

Then with great labor he began to widen the passageway.

He did much to widen the national church.

The road began to widen and after a sharp bend she came into the tiny town indicated on the map.

It forms a roughly circular highland area, the drainage lines of which radiate outward from the centre in a series of narrow valleys, the upper parts of which cut deeply into the mountains, and the lower widen into the surrounding plain.

If we widen the slit still further rapid loss of purity results, with very little gain in light, the maximum luminosity obtainable with an indefinitely wide slit being four times that obtained with the normal one.

To widen it more abruptly would indeed increase the volume of the furnace, but would probably lead to grave irregularities in the distribution of the gas and charge, and hence in the working of the furnace.

Drawn up by Melanchthon, this pronouncement was intended to widen the breach between the Lutherans and the Zwinglians, and to narrow that between the Lutherans and the Romanists; from this time it was regarded as the chief standard of the Lutheran faith.

South of this promontory the plain begins to widen again; on the latitude of Acre (Akka), from which this part of the plain takes its name, it is from 4 to 5 m.

Off the south-east coast the place of the skdrgard is in a measure taken by the long narrow island of Oland, but north of this the skrgard begins to widen, and the most considerable fjords are found, such as Bravik, which penetrates the land for 35 m.

What I say is widen the scope of our society, let the mot d'ordre be not virtue alone but independence and action as well!

In the 15th century the time was approaching when the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope was to widen the scope of geographical enterprise.

He spared no pains to be accurate, or to widen the basis of his thought.

Wilhelm Tell was an attempt to win for the German drama a new field, to widen the domain of dramatic poetry.

In its origin this system was a perfectly honest attempt to widen the sphere of obedience by making morality wholly objective and independent of the vagaries of the individual conscience.

The Crusades thus widen out, towards their close, into a general scheme for the christianization of all the known world.'

He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.

Only at Rome, where there was a plebs to be striven against, these distinctions seem to have had a tendency to die out, while at Sparta they seem to have had a tendency to widen.

The adjoining Quincy market may be mentioned because its construction (1826) was utilized to open six new streets, widen a seventh, and secure flats, docks and wharf rights - all without laying tax or debt upon the city.

When high street shops widen their aisles so twin pushchairs may be navigated around with ease.

The invasion of Iraq seemed to widen the gap.

Public access to the countryside continues to widen and wildfire risk will increase.

The balloon is rapidly inflated and deflated to open or widen the area.

As a child grows the eustachian tubes widen and stiffen, allowing air to enter and fluid to drain from the middle ear more efficiently.

The boy will widen his stance to maintain balance and walk with a waddling gait to advance his weakened legs.

It's not really a step to the side, although some flashy dancers will widen their stance to make it that way.

Bangs like his will widen a narrow forehead, and this styles works best for someone with straight hair and a triangular face shape.

Some prefer to make a small cut in the vagina to widen the opening.

You might also widen your search by looking specifically for "uneven" or "handkerchief" hems for petite women.

There are ways, however, to increase the strength of the candle fragrance, and widen the scent throw (the distance the scent can be detected from).

Dating websites can almost infinitely widen your social pool.

The recipient may prefer an engagement ring that no one else has, and one way to go about getting it is to widen the search to include colored gemstones either individually or accented with smaller diamonds.

When you suffer boredom due to your repetitious meal plan, just remind yourself that the diet is only temporary and, someday soon, your menu selections will widen and your symptoms will be gone.

Whether you do tattoos for fun or for work, picking up a selection of stencils may be the perfect way to widen the images you can offer both your customers and friends.

Next, take the rolling pin and place it in each ridge, slowly rocking it back and forth to widen the ridge.

This could potentially lead to a viral spread of your website content, which will obviously widen your long-term user base.

After the great fire of 1872 it became possible, in the reconstruction of the business district, to widen and straighten its streets and create squares, and so provide for the traffic that had long outgrown the narrow, crooked ways of the older city.

Unfortunately considerations of luminosity compel the observer often to widen the slit much beyond the range within which the theoretical value of resolving power holds in practice.

Eg captopril, losartan - Calcium channel blockers or alpha blockers, which help widen your blood vessels.

Cyclic GMP causes the blood vessels in the penis to widen by relaxing a thin layer of muscle found in the blood vessel walls.

Cyclic GMP causes the blood vessels in the penis to widen by relaxing a thin layer of muscle found in the blood vessels in the penis to widen by relaxing a thin layer of muscle found in the blood vessel walls.

The stated rationale is to widen access, reduce brain drain, bolster research capabilities and maximize the competitiveness of the sector.

There is a farcical problem currently of a Clifton resident who applied to widen his gates to get a double buggy through.

In order to maintain such constancy the Catholic employment gap has had to widen or narrow as aggregate unemployment has risen or fallen.

I have already announced our intention to widen differentials on Vehicle Excise Duty in favor of greener vehicles, in a revenue neutral manner.

Although works to provide ramps and widen doorways and passages to ease access are zero-rated for VAT, they can be expensive.

New technologies have the power to improve our lives, but they can also widen the gap between rich and poor.

To cover a root surface denuded by gingival defect or periodontal disease, and widen the zone of attached gingiva.

The steadily increasing prosperity of the country during the years 1886 and 1887 removed the danger of national bankruptcy and international interference, and induced Sir Evelyn Baring to widen the area of administrative reforms. In the provinces the local administration and the methods of dispensing justice were still scandalously unsatisfactory, and this was the field to which the British representative next directed his efforts.

The segments which follow gradually widen, and tie hinder part of the sternum is broad and flat.

There are types of swords with straight backs yet curved edges, and others that widen toward the point but then taper sharply.