Definizione monolingua

widening

widening

1. Present participle of widen.

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 (not comparable)

1. Of things that are growing wider.
2. Of things that are separate, with increasing separation.

   The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems.

Definizione dizionario widening

	allargamento
	An increase in width.

allargatura

ampliamento

Altri significati:

Of things that are separate, with increasing separation.

Present participle of widen.

Of things that are growing wider.

The action of the verb widen.