What is another word for broadens?

Pronunciation: [bɹˈɔːdənz] (IPA)

Broadens, meaning to widen or expand something, has a range of synonyms that can be used to enhance writing and convey the same message in a variety of ways. Some alternatives to broaden include enlarge, extend, broaden out, widen, spread, stretch, open up, amplify or augment. Additionally, words like diversify, vary, proliferate, increase and intensify can also connote the expansion of something in a more nuanced way, depending on the context. These words can be useful when describing the growth of an idea or concept, or when discussing the extension of a physical or conceptual space.

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What are the hypernyms for Broadens?

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Usage examples for Broadens

Tennyson has pictured England as a state "where freedom slowly broadens down from precedent to precedent."
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
It broadens the intellectual view.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
At Bhamo the river broadens into a lake again, something like what it is between Saigang and Mandalay-beautiful enough to travel a long way to see.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch

Famous quotes with Broadens

  • The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
    Dennis Potter
  • Besides, time, which despoils castles, enriches verses . . . Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
    Jorge Luis Borges
  • Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
    M. H. Abrams
  • The Priest ... appears on the scene at a time when Prophecy has already succeeded in hewing out a path for its Idea; when that Idea has already had a certain effect on the trend of society, and has brought about a new harmony or balance be tween the different forces at work. The Priest also fosters the Idea, and desires to perpetuate it; but he is not of the race of giants. He has not the strength to fight continually against necessity and actuality; his tendency is rather to bow to the one and come to terms with the other. Instead of clinging to the narrowness of the Prophet, and demanding of reality what it cannot give, he broadens his outlook, and takes a wider view of the relation between his Idea and the facts of life. Not what to be, but what be, is what he seeks. His watchword is not the Idea, the whole Idea, and nothing but the Idea; he accepts the complex "harmony" which has resulted from the conflict of that Idea with other forces. His battle is no longer a battle against actuality, but a battle in the name of actuality against its enemies.
    Ahad Ha'am

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