widened
past simple and past participle ofwiden
| 单词 | widened |
| 释义 | widened past simple and past participle ofwiden widen verb[IorT] uk/ˈwaɪ.dən/us/ˈwaɪ.dən/widenverb[I or T](DISTANCE)B2 tobecome, or to make somethinggreaterinwidth: As itapproachesthesea, theriverbeginsto widen(out).
Enlarging and inflating
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming bigger widenverb[I or T](AMOUNT)B2 to (causesomething to)becomelargeror toincludealargeramountornumber: Hiseyes/smilewidened. Why not widen thediscussiontoincludetheMuslimandJewishpointsofview? Enlarging and inflating
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming bigger Examplesofwidenedwidened In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. A more extensive investigation would havewidenedthe scope, but is unlikely to have altered the results in any significant way. From theCambridge English Corpus Its scope waswidenedto include an unquestioned dominion over the essences of created things. From theCambridge English Corpus After 1924, wage earner cases exceeded business cases in each year, and the gapwidenedas the rate of wage earner bankruptcy increased. From theCambridge English Corpus The dispersion of total incomewidenedover the eight years, especially among women. From theCambridge English Corpus A question, for example, can be signaled by raised eyebrows,widenedeyes, and a slight leaning forward of the head. From theCambridge English Corpus But those discrepancies havewidened, rather than narrowed, during the post-war years. From theCambridge English Corpus In this connection, it should be noted that the technological and social forces that drive population ageing have alsowidenedthe distance between successive generations. From theCambridge English Corpus Further, economic decentralizationwideneddiversities among the provinces and regions. From theCambridge English Corpus The gapwidenedfurther in 1997 when the number of children fell to 947 and the number of carers to 748. From theCambridge English Corpus The removal of discrimination from many aspects of life haswidenedthe pool of talent, created a diverse workforce, and imposed an obligation to work. From theCambridge English Corpus The master-servant divide allegedlywidenedover the course of the eighteenth century, trickling down from the nobility to the middling sorts. From theCambridge English Corpus He is astute in showing how a split between unbelieving towns and the faithful rural hinterlands haswidened. From theCambridge English Corpus The range of services was alsowidened, and home help could now be combined with transport services, meals-on-wheels, day-care and chiropody services. From theCambridge English Corpus The differential income levels across income-status groups over a variety of characteristics were firstwidenedbut began to converge in a catch-up phase of growth. From theCambridge English Corpus The gap in the timing of entry into this role between the more competent and the least competent seems to havewidenedin recent decades. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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