widen

About 1.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To become wide or wider.

   His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.

2. verb To make wide or wider.
3. verb To let out clothes to a larger size.

   She widened his trousers for him.

4. verb To broaden or extend in scope or range.

   The police widened their enquiries.

5. 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

Similar words

broaden extend let out broadening extension enlarge enlarging enlargement extended expand

Often followed by

the and their its his our out in as

Word family

widened widener wideners widening widens