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.

widening

1. present participle of widen

• indewing