Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: widen
IPA transcription: [w'aɪdən]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: widen
    Meaning: become broader or wider or more extensive; "The road widened"
  • Synonyms: let_out, widen
    Meaning: make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"
  • Synonyms: widen
    Meaning: make wider; "widen the road"
Usage examples
  • But the general tendency of schism is to widen. Had Leo the Tenth, when the exactions and impostures of the Pardoners first roused the indignation of Saxony, corrected those evil practices with a vigorous hand, it is not improbable that Luther would have died in the bosom of the Church of Rome.