widening

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪdənɪŋ/

widening (not comparable)

1. Growing wider or farther apart.

   The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems.

   • 1920, William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming:

     Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; […]

widening (plural widenings)

1. The action of the verb widen.
   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla:

     She looked up sleepily and asked me what it was, and with the very words I thought she drew in her breath with a widening of the nostrils and seemed to come suddenly and fully alive.

   • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: New signalbox at Twyford”, in Modern Railways, page 227:

     Near the site of the old Kennet Bridge signalbox, a down goods loop has been provided and this necessitated the widening of an embankment and the slewing of the up and down relief lines.

widening

1. present participle and gerund of widen

• indewing