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Broadening   /brˈɔdənɪŋ/  /brˈɔdnɪŋ/   Listen
Broadening

noun
1.
The act of making something wider.  Synonym: widening.
2.
The action of making broader.
3.
An increase in width.  Synonym: widening.


Broaden

verb
(past & past part. broadened; pres. part. broadening)
1.
Make broader.
2.
Extend in scope or range or area.  Synonyms: extend, widen.  "Widen the range of applications" , "Broaden your horizon" , "Extend your backyard"
3.
Vary in order to spread risk or to expand.  Synonyms: branch out, diversify.
4.
Become broader.





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"Broadening" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been to adapt to our use the Turkish railway system, merely broadening the gauge. In that case, our own broad gauge line from Kantara, which, immediately on the fall of Gaza, had been brought through to Deir Sineid, would have been continued along the route of the Turkish line from ...
— With the British Army in The Holy Land • Henry Osmond Lock
... now, rising from his knees with a queer smile broadening on his face. She put the banner into his hands and gave ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... does. So that is what I pretended to be. The result was a concise, basic regional guide to year-round vegetable production. Giving numerous talks on gardening and teaching master gardener classes improved my subsequent books. With this broadening, I expanded my imaginary audience and filled the invisible chairs with all varieties of gardeners who had differing ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon
... Uncle Robert. He comes to the children at just the right moment. He directs the sweet strong streams of their lives onward into a channel of earnest inquiry and exalted labor, which is ever broadening and deepening. ...
— Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) • Francis W. Parker and Nellie Lathrop Helm
... in which enthusiasm manifested itself most fiercely was as we have seen not favourable to literature. Puritanism drove itself like a wedge into the art of the time, broadening as it went. Had there been no more in it than the moral earnestness and religiousness of Sidney and Spenser, Cavalier would not have differed from Roundhead, and there might have been no civil war; each party was endowed ...
— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair


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