Widening

Adjective

 * 1) Of things that are growing wider.
 * 2) Of things that are separate, with increasing separation.
 * The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems.

Quotations

 * 1920 — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
 * Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Noun

 * 1) The action of the verb widen.
 * 2) *1887 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla
 * She looked up sleepily and asked me what it was, and with the very words I thought she drew in her breath with a widening of the nostrils and seemed to come suddenly and fully alive.

Verb
widening



Thesaurus
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