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Broadening   /brˈɔdənɪŋ/  /brˈɔdnɪŋ/   Listen
Broadening

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


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.  Antonyms: specialise, specialize.
4.
Become broader.





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"Broadening" Quotes from Famous Books



... provided by the Sherman Act to a similar state of facts, properly presented. While no prudent lawyer would care to attempt a comprehensive definition of what constitutes interstate commerce, it may at least be said that the tendency of the courts has been and is toward a constant broadening of the term to meet the facts of ...
— Our Changing Constitution • Charles Pierson
... taught and the highest tone prevailed that the masters could inculcate. The first mother showed deep interest in the holidays, in all her child's lessons, directed and encouraged her, opening her understanding and broadening her point of view, while she attended to every physical grace. She explained how her child should apply the knowledge she acquired during term, so that it should grow interesting, and as far as it lay in her power she endeavoured that her daughter should be ...
— Three Things • Elinor Glyn
... southerly point of Manhattan Island. The Hudson River, separating the island from the mainland of New Jersey on the west, is at its mouth two miles wide. The northern and eastern sides of the island are washed by the Harlem River, flowing out of the Hudson about a dozen miles north of the city, and broadening into the East River, about a mile wide where it separates New York from Brooklyn Heights, on Long Island. Encamped on Staten Island, on the south, General Howe could, with the aid of the fleet, land at any of half ...
— Washington and his Comrades in Arms - A Chronicle of the War of Independence • George Wrong
... reported, having the weighty sanction of Senator Trumbull and the judiciary committee, greatly increasing the force of officials under the Bureau; putting it under the military administration of the President and so with the direct support of the army; and broadening its functions to include the building of school-houses and asylums for the freedmen, and a wide jurisdiction over all civil and criminal cases in which local laws made an unjust discrimination between the races. The bill passed the Senate and House, ...
— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam
... torch of bark above his head, Tom led the way. He was quite sure of himself now, even though he did not know just where the path was coming out. It was broadening as he advanced, and he was positive it did not lead ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman


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