Thesaurus
:
widen
T
hesaurus
widen
English
Verb
Sense: to make wider
Synonyms
breadthen
broaden
enwiden
thicken
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⇒ thesaurus
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widen
widthen
(
rare
)
Antonyms
lengthen
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⇒ thesaurus
]
shorten
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⇒ thesaurus
]
straiten
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]
Hypernyms
enlarge
expand
increase
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⇒ thesaurus
]
Various
dilate
Further reading
“
202. breadth, thickness
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
widen
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.