Need another word that means the same as “widening”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “widening” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Widening” are: broadening, turnout
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “widening” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| broadening | The act of making something wider. The broadening of travel. |
| turnout | A set of clothing (with accessories. She has good natural turnout. |
| broad | Broad in scope or content. An invention with broad applications. |
| capacious | Large in capacity. She carried a capacious bag. |
| corridor | A passage along the side of some railway carriages, from which doors lead into compartments. His room lay at the very end of the corridor. |
| deepen | Make deeper. Her voice deepened when she whispered the password. |
| defensible | Able to be protected. A fort with a defensible yard at its feet. |
| enhance | Increase. This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat. |
| escalate | Increase rapidly. The disturbance escalated into a full scale riot. |
| exacerbate | Make worse. The strong pound has exacerbated the situation by making it much harder for UK companies to compete on price. |
| expanded | Denoting materials which have a light cellular structure. Expanded polystyrene. |
| extensively | To a large or detailed degree. Her husband travelled extensively in his job. |
| fortify | Make strong or stronger. The wine is aged in oak barrels and fortified with French brandy. |
| gap | Make an opening or gap in. There are many gaps in our understanding of what happened. |
| groove | Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove. Her vocals drift delicately across a soaring soul groove. |
| harden | Cause to accept or become hardened to habituate. Wait for the glue to harden. |
| heighten | Increase the height of. Heighten the tension. |
| increase | The amount by which something increases. The amount of work increased. |
| intensify | Increase the opacity of (a negative) using a chemical. The dispute began to intensify. |
| lane | A narrow road, especially in a rural area. A bus lane. |
| lounge | Be about. A TV lounge. |
| orifice | An aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity. The orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart. |
| overall | A loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work. The overall cost. |
| passage | A narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building a passageway. A passage migrant. |
| reinforce | Strengthen (a military force) with additional personnel or equipment. He reinforced the concrete. |
| rise | Rise in rank or status. The moorlands rise and fall in gentle folds. |
| road | A railroad. The low road of apathy and alienation. |
| strengthen | Make strong or stronger. The wind won t strengthen until after dark. |
| swath | A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing. |
| toughen | Make tough or tougher. A falcon has scaly skin on its legs that toughens up very quickly. |
| turnout | A point at which a railway track diverges; a set of points. Parks studded with scenic turnouts. |
| wide | A ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play for which an extra is awarded to the batting side. Won by a wide margin. |
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