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verb (used without object), verb (used with object)

to become or make broad.

Origin:
1720–30; broad + -en¹

Related forms

o·ver·broad·en, verb

re·broad·en, verb

un·broad·ened, adjective

Synonyms
extend, expand, enlarge, widen; enlighten, inform, educate; sophisticate.

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broaden (ˈbrɔːd^ən)

—vb
	to make or become broad or broader; widen

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broaden

1727, from broad + -en (1). The word seems no older than this date (discovered by Johnson in one of Thomson's season poems); broadened also is first found in the same poet, and pp. adj. broadening is recorded from 1850.

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