Word Meanings - WIDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
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- ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - WIDEN
To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking. - EXPANDER
Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc. - STRETCHING
from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton. - WIDENESS
1. The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room. "I landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe." Swift. 2. Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the - DILATED
Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak. - DILATER
One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges. - SWELL
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in - DESCANT
discantus, fr. L. dis + cantus singing, melody, fr. canere to sing. Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. The - STRETCH
OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in - SWELLDOM
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. - DILATE
word as latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear ; or fr. dilatus, used as p. p. of differre to separate (see Delay, Tolerate, 1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates - STRETCHER
A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stretches. - DILATEDLY
In a dilated manner. Feltham. - ENLARGED
Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n. - ENLARGE
Etym: 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand; - SWELLING
an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; - EXPAND
To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5. (more info) 1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight. - SWELLISH
Dandified; stylish. - UPSWELL
To swell or rise up. - UNSWELL
To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer. - HEARTSWELLING
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser. - SUBDILATED
Partially dilated. - BOSWELLISM
The style of Boswell. - TRADESCANTIA
A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew. - ENWIDEN
To widen. - FAR-STRETCHED; FARSTRETCHED
Stretched beyond ordinary limits.