Vocabulary
Broaden
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
become larger in distance from side to side; widen.
Urdu meaning
پھیلانا، وسیع کرنا، چوڑا ہونا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Due to its failure to broaden the tax base, the government saw it appropriate instead to nearly double the petroleum levy on petrol from Rs84 per litre before the start of the Iran war to Rs161 per litre as of April 3.
Dawn Editorials —
The burden of taxes
— 2026-04-18
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Beyond rhetoric, the government has failed to broaden the tax base or build fiscal buffers.
Dawn Editorials —
Petrol shock
— 2026-03-08
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This gradual institutionalisation of an emergency levy as a permanent revenue spinner signals fiscal compulsions originating from the state`s failure to broaden the tax base.
Dawn Editorials —
Super tax
— 2026-01-29
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It points out that the export of raw or semiprocessed minerals will do little to ease balance-of-payments pressures or broaden Pakistan`s narrow industrial base.
Dawn Editorials —
Beyond extraction
— 2026-01-26
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But as the city grew, a decision was made to broaden the road and reduce the green belt,in order to accommodate the traffic.
Dawn Editorials —
Cities in our memories
— 2026-01-13
Synonyms
widen, become/make broader, become/make wider, expand, fill out, stretch (out)
Antonyms
narrow, diminish
Curator example
“her smile broadened”
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