widen
/ˈwaɪdn̩/ verbe B2En français : s’élargir, élargir
- To become wide or wider. · His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
- To make wide or wider.
- To let out clothes to a larger size. · She widened his trousers for him.
- To broaden or extend in scope or range. · The police widened their enquiries.
- To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values. · to widen a short variable to an int variable
He/she/it widens · Prétérit widened · Participe passé widened · Forme en -ing widening
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- widen
- He/she/it
- widens
- Prétérit
- widened
- Participe passé
- widened
- Forme en -ing
- widening
Dans la bibliothèque
The gleam of the match which he struck shone upon his clotted fingers and upon the ghastly pool which widened slowly from the crushed skull of the victim.
Peppino glided first into this crevice; after they got along a few paces the passage widened.
Suddenly he rallied, made a violent effort to restrain himself, and then a smile gradually widened the features of his disturbed countenance.
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