widen
Make more spacious
Widen means to make or become wider—to increase in breadth or scope.
A road crew widens a highway.
Eyes widen in surprise.
The gap between rich and poor continues to widen.
The investigation widened to include additional suspects.
What begins as physical expansion extends naturally to abstract broadening: Travel widens your perspective.
Expand in scope
- enlargeIncrease in size
- extendMake longer or larger
- increaseGrowth in amount
- amplifyIncrease in strength
grow · spread · escalate · augment · develop · diversify · multiply · proliferate
Force toward oneself
- tensionStretched or strained state
- strainExcessive stretching force
- extendMake longer or larger
- elongateTo make longer
distend · pry open · elastic · tensile · flexibility · pliability · give · yield
Expand in scope
- horizonsApparent earth-sky boundaries
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- scopeExtent or range
- understandingMental comprehension of something
viewpoint · awareness · knowledge · experience · worldview · mindset · perspective · insight
broaden
Expand in scope
amplify · grow · spread · escalate · augment · develop · diversify · multiply · proliferate · enhance
pull
Force toward oneself
elongate · distend · pry open · elastic · tensile · flexibility · pliability · give · yield
broaden
Expand in scope
understanding · viewpoint · awareness · knowledge · experience · worldview · mindset · perspective · insight · appreciation
gap
Unfilled space between
bore · diameter · span · breadth · berth · passage · channel · expanse · space · margin
- eye movementsgaze, blink, stare, glance, squint
- excavationdig, excavation, excavating, excavator, digging
- size changesenlarge, enlargement, expand, expansion, shrink
- expansionexpand, spread, broaden, extend, enlarge
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- building verbsbuild, construct, erect, demolish, renovate
- wide openFully accessible, unrestricted
- wide awakeTotally alert and attentive
- open wideRequest for mouth access
- far and wideOver great distances
- wide eyesEnlarged gaze showing surprise
- whole wide worldThe entire earth
wide, width, widespread, widely, widened, wider, wide-eyed, widening, widens