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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



... has not used its power to force the State to undertake collective enterprise. Indeed, all the immediate programs of the various socialist parties advocate the strengthening of the economic power of the State. They are adding more and more to its functions; they are broadening its scope; and they are, without question, vastly increasing its power. But, at the same time, they are democratizing the State. By direct legislation, by a variety of political reforms, and by the power of the great socialist ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter
... see this, dearest, and make the best of it you can: as far as I can make it out, everything everywhere seems to be an ever-deepening, ever-broadening stream that makes with inconceivable velocity for its own proper level, WHERE PERFECTION IS! ... and ever gets nearer and nearer, and never finds it, ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... I do nothing of the sort. I stand for progress and for freedom broadening down from precedent ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw
... their last raid upon the ranches between the Frio and the Rio Grande, and Truesdell at the head of his rangers rid the earth of them to the last brave, earning his sobriquet. Then came prosperity in the form of waxing herds and broadening lands. And then old age and bitterness, when he sat, with his great mane of hair as white as the Spanish-dagger blossoms and his fierce, pale-blue eyes, on the shaded gallery at Cibolo, growling like the pumas that he had slain. He ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... all the laughing valley, Heard the unloosened waters leaping down Broadening over the meadows; saw the sun running From hill to hill and glittering ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman


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