Usually means: Increasing the breadth or scope.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. widening: Merriam-Webster
  2. widening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. widening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Widening, widening: Wordnik
  5. widening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. widening: Wiktionary
  7. widening: Dictionary.com
  8. widening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Widening (computer science): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Widening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. widening: Rhymezone
  12. Widening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. widening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. widening: FreeDictionary.org
  15. widening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. widening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. widening: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. widening: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (widening)

▸ adjective:  Growing wider or farther apart.
▸ noun:  The action of the verb widen.

Similar:
broadening, expansed, broadspreading, widish, extended, broad, wide, dilatant, burgeoning, spread out, more...

Opposite:
narrowing, constricting, tapering, diminishing

Types:
dilation, dilatation, more...

Phrases:
ever widening, Widening participation, eyes widening, widening eyes, more...

Adjectives:
ever, mediastinal, further, slight, gradual, net, progressive, marked, considerable, road, significant

Colors:
    sky blue,     light gray,     pale yellow,     soft pink,     lavender, more...



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Similar:
broadening, expansed, broadspreading, widish, extended, broad, wide, dilatant, burgeoning, spread out, more...

Opposite:
narrowing, constricting, tapering, diminishing

Types:
dilation, dilatation, more...

Phrases:
ever widening, Widening participation, eyes widening, widening eyes, more...

Adjectives:
ever, mediastinal, further, slight, gradual, net, progressive, marked, considerable, road, significant

Colors:
    sky blue,     light gray,     pale yellow,     soft pink,     lavender, more...



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