broadening

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of broaden

plural broadenings

1. The act of becoming broader.
2. The act of making (something) broader.

   The broadening of one's horizons is good for the soul.

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   The broadening of the main street in this sleepy town is expected to cost a lot of money; it is said that the project will be financed with municipal bonds, but many citizens are skeptical of such debt.

comparative more broadening · superlative most broadening

1. That gives someone broader education and experience; that broadens someone's horizons.

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   Travel is broadening. And exciting too, sometimes. In eleven European trips and two circumaviations during the past eleven years in quest of rare books, I have been lucky on two or three occasions. In Edinburgh in 1959 I came across a set of Blaeu's Atlas in eleven large volumes, printed in Amsterdam in 1662.

   1966, Coranto, volumes 4-6, page 24