widen

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   become broader or wider or more extensive

   The road widened

2. 2
   verb

   make wider

   widen the road

3. 3
   verb

   To become wide or wider.

   His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.

4. 4
   verb

   To make wide or wider.

   The widening works include the rebuilding of the skew bridge near Northwood to take four tracks, and to enable the Rickmansworth Road to be widened to 60 ft.; […].

5. 5
   verb

   To let out clothes to a larger size.

   She widened his trousers for him.

6. 6
   verb

   To broaden or extend in scope or range.

   The police widened their enquiries.

7. 7
   verb

   To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

   to widen a short variable to an int variable

8. 8
   verb

   make (clothes) larger

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Widén.