widen

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To become wide or wider. intransitive
    — His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
  2. To make wide or wider. transitive
    — The widening works include the rebuilding of the skew bridge near Northwood to take four tracks, and to enable the Rickmansworth Road to be widened to 60 ft.; […].
  3. To let out clothes to a larger size. transitive
    — She widened his trousers for him.
  4. To broaden or extend in scope or range. transitive
    — The police widened their enquiries.
  5. To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values. transitive
    — to widen a short variable to an int variable

词形变化

widens present,singular,third-person widening participle,present widened participle,past widened past

词汇关系

近义词
breadthen broaden enwiden thicken widen widthen
反义词
lengthen shorten straiten
上位词
enlarge expand increase
衍生词
widen up widenable
相关词
dilate

词源

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From wide + -en (verbal suffix).
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