broadenedadj.

1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 198 With broaden'd Nostrils..The..Heifer snuffs the..Gale.

1775 T. Erskine Observ. Prevailing Abuses in Brit Army 14 The sober sons of industry..now..roll along the broadened ways in gilded chariots.

1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xlix. 16 From ocean rose her broaden'd disk.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 374 The leaf..has at its edge..teeth with broadened ends.

1908 Amer. Lumberman 20 June 33/3 A broadened canal..may be created..at a minimum of cost and a maximum of convenience.

1939 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 173 336 Each band resembles one enormously broadened line.

2002 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 July 54 Suit jackets have broadened shoulders and nipped waists.

1788 R. Burns Let. 16 Aug. (1985) I. cclxiv. 305 Consciousness of my own inability for the struggle of the world—my broaden'd mark to Misfortune in a Wife & children—I could indulge these..till my humour would ferment into the most acid vinegar of Chagrin.]

1848 Atlas 2 Dec. (Early ed.) 785/2 As the popular basis of our system becomes more and more broadened, politicians seeking advancement are tempted to bid less scrupulously for popular favour.

1862 J. B. Warren Glimpses Antiq. 115 We are in their hands, the ancient Gods! They watch our doings from their amber thrones, And move us on like puppets to destruction; Or may be, length of days and broadened rule, to tempt yet ampler sinning.

1864 Illustr. Times 21 May 334/3 We hesitate to form any guess as to what a broadened knowledge of life may do for Mr. Buchanan.

1883 A. H. Walker Text-bk. Patent Laws U.S.A. ix. 177 The broadened claim is clearly void for want of novelty, as well as for want of identity with the original invention.

1944 World Petroleum July 36/2 The broadened search for new fields, stimulated by the war itself, may be counted upon to maintain output at this high level.

1983 K. Dryden Game 14 My highs are not so high, my lows no longer so depressing low. It comes with age and a broadened perspective, but it is an emotional fudge.

2019 W. I. April et al. in G. Y. Wang Globalization v. 100 Radical reforms regarding social services provision..resulted in broadened access to university education for students from poor families.

1850 W. C. Fowler Eng. Gram. 349 Thak..occurs..with broadened vowel and change of k into gh before t; as, Thought.

1864 Examiner 13 Aug. 516/2 The piece is to be read as a poem, not as a study of Lancashire or any other dialect. Its broadened language is a poetical generalization not a recreation in philology.

1970 J. Fredman False Joanna iv. 51 I tried his country address where some old broad..hit me with a cluster of dropped aitches and broadened vowels, telling me that 'e'd 'ad an urgent messidge an' gawn orf someweah.

2008 K. Aitchison in Bucket of Frogs New Writing Scotl. 26 12 He'd had too much to drink and between his broadened accent and slurring words the poor kid couldn't make out what he was saying.