Crossword-Solution: WIDEN 5 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Widen	v. t.	To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
Widen	v. i.	To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
WIDEN	anagram	DWINE, EDWIN, WENDI, WINED

We have 86 clues for the answer “WIDEN”

Clue	Answers
Alleviate traffic on, perhaps	1 answer
Expand, as a highway	1 answer
Expand laterally	1 answer
Expand horizontally	1 answer
Enlarge, as a road	1 answer
Enlarge (as a roadbed)	1 answer
Dilate; expand	1 answer
Change, as from two lanes to three	1 answer
Change, as from two lanes to four	1 answer
Become broader	1 answer
push back the boundaries	1 answer
Add more lanes to, as a highway	1 answer
Add more lanes	1 answer
Add lanes to, as a road	1 answer
Add lanes to, as a highway	1 answer
Add capacity to, in a way	1 answer
Add a lane to, say	1 answer
Add a lane to, perhaps	1 answer
Add a lane to, as a highway	1 answer
Add a lane	1 answer
Extend throughout	1 answer
make or become wider	1 answer
extend in scope or range or area	1 answer
Spread horizontally	1 answer
Modernize, as a highway	1 answer
Make broader, as a highway	1 answer
Lane Add a to	1 answer
Increase, as a gap	1 answer
Increase in girth	1 answer
Increase in breadth	1 answer
Improve, as a road	1 answer
Improve the road, in a way	1 answer
Grow broad	1 answer
Go from two to four lanes	1 answer
Get broader	1 answer
Gain weight, maybe	1 answer
Gain some unnecessary weight	1 answer
Expand, as a road	1 answer
Ream out	2 answers
Opposite of narrow	2 answers
Grow bigger	2 answers
Improve, as a highway	2 answers
Extend outward	2 answers
add a lane to	2 answers
Add lanes to	2 answers
generalize	3 answers
Enlarge upon.	3 answers
Change the channel?	3 answers
Enlarge, in a way	4 answers
MAKE wider	5 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with WIDEN (5)

The influx of Jewish immigrants from the former USSR, which topped 330,000 during the period 1990-91, will increase unemployment, intensify housing problems, widen the government budget deficit, and fuel inflation.

The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

There was now an apparent disposition to relax; to widen the circle of confidences and give a more general tone to the conversation.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994

But of what use was his discretion, since only that afternoon, misled by Harney's interest in the out-law colony, she had boasted to him of coming from the Mountain? Now every word that had been spoken showed her how such an origin must widen the distance between them.

Summer Edith Wharton 2006

The water seemed to widen and split, being cloven by the dark wedge of a fish-shaped and wooded islet.

The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

The time when this thought of another should broaden and widen into thought of OTHERS, was yet to come; but already it had expanded to include the unborn child--already, as in the case of Mrs.

The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with WIDEN (3)

But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared. Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over…

Cassandra Clare City of Glass

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.

Neal Shusterman Downsiders

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 125 times in crossword archives (1969–2025).