Results for widen

Definitions of widen:

part of speech: verb transitive

To make broader; spread open.

part of speech: noun

Wideness.

part of speech: verb transitive

To make or grow wide or wider.

part of speech: verb

To extend between the sides; to enlarge.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To become broader or larger.

Usage examples for widen:

• Slowly again her eyes began to widen "Little Eve Edgarton", Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

• Soon after this camp- the fourth and the last in Marble Canyon- was left behind us, the walls began to widen out, especially on the north- northwest, and by noon we had passed from the narrow, direct canyon, into one with slopes and plateaus breaking the sheer walls, the wall on the left or southeast side being much the lower of the two, and more nearly perpendicular, rising to a height of 3200 feet, while the northwest side lifted up to the Kaibab Plateau, one point- miles back from the river- rising 6000 feet above us. "Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico", E. L. Kolb

• A chink of light has been let in upon a dark cave, and slowly the chink will widen "The Glands Regulating Personality", Louis Berman, M.D.