enwiden

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈwaɪdə̆n/

Verb

enwiden (third-person singular simple present enwidens, present participle enwidening, simple past and past participle enwidened)

1. Broaden; diversify.
   • 1945, Utrikespolitiska Institutet, Peace and Security After the Second World War, page 174:

     During the very decade, when the League of Nations went bankrupt as a political agency for international peace and security, i.e. the ‛thirties, the organization through its secretariat, various specialized commissions, and expert committees, kept on doing much useful technical work in the economic, social, and humanitarian fields and also rendered it more feasible for the League to enwiden its collaboration in those fields with the nations outside the League.

   • 1953, Indonesia Djawatan Pendidikan Masjarakat, Mass Education in Indonesia, page 117:

     2. To enwiden, increase and enlarge the knowledge, the intelligence and the consciousness of the people…

   • 1963, Stephen Henry Roberts, The History of French Colonial Policy, 1870–1925, page 340:

     …seeking not so much to extend its dominion as to enwiden its markets and civilizing influence.