wide
/waɪd/ adverb A2- Extensively. · He travelled far and wide.
- Completely. · He was wide awake.
- Away from or to one side of a given goal. · The arrow fell wide of the mark.· A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
Comparative wider · Superlative widest
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The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman’s brougham.
It was lying wide of the metals upon the left hand of the track as one goes eastward, at a point close to the station, where the line emerges from the tunnel in which it runs.
He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open.
What in the whole wide world can be the connection between this dead painting man and the affair at Birlstone?”
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