Broaden
['brɔːd(ə)n] or ['brɔdn]
Definition
(verb.) become broader; 'The road broadened'.
(verb.) make broader; 'broaden the road'.
Editor: Tamara--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
(v. t.) To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Widen, make broad.
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Examples
- It was an occupation in which he would be apt to glean much gossip and many stray scraps of information, but little that would tend to broaden his mind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Milverton's smile broadened and his eyes twinkled humorously. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Increasing trade and travel, colonizations, migrations and wars, had broadened the intellectual horizon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His smile broadened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But with the broadening of ideas that came with the Captivity, the tenour of prophecy broadens and changes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And with the coming of the primitive herdsman there would be a considerable broadening out of all this sort of practice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A truly general aim broadens the outlook; it stimulates one to take more consequences (connections) into account. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But with the broadening of ideas that came with the Captivity, the tenour of prophecy broadens and changes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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