Past tense of broaden; became wider or more expansive in scope, understanding, or physical dimension.
From broad (wide) plus -en (verb-forming suffix) plus -ed (past tense), showing the pattern of making adjectives into verbs.
Languages often turn adjectives into verbs by adding -en (redden, darken, broaden), and these words carry emotional weight—'my perspective broadened' feels transformative in a way that 'I had wider views' never could.
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