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# widening

«widening» in Mova's school dictionary: **becoming or making something wider** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (widening — the act of making wider); verb form (widening — from widen, widens, widened, widening); adjective (widening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Widening means becoming or making something wider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#m1)

2) A widening gap or problem is one that is getting bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes roads, rivers and eyes ("her eyes widening"). In news it describes growing gaps, like a widening gap between rich and poor. Phrases: road widening, widening gap, eyes widening.

### examples

- The council is widening the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#x1)
- Her eyes were widening with surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#x2)
- There is a widening gap between the two teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#x3)
- The river is widening as it nears the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#x4)
- The road widening caused traffic jams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#x5)
- The crack in the wall is widening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/#x6)

### note

From widen (wide + -en); drop the e: widening. Similar -en verbs: lengthen, shorten, deepen, brighten.

### In the corpora

- [The Atlantic Ocean is a young ocean that started opening about 180 million years ago and is still widening.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «widening» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/widening/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.