widening (n.)
- access
- accession
- accretion
- accrual
- accruement
- accumulation
- addition
- adjunct
- advance
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- appreciation
- ascent
- augmentation
- ballooning
- boom
- boost
- broadening
- buildup
- crescendo
- deployment
- development
- dispersion
- edema
- elevation
- enlargement
- expansion
- extension
- flare
- flood
- gain
- growth
- gush
- hike
- hiking
- increase
- increment
- inflation
- jump
- leap
- magnification
- mounting
- multiplication
- productiveness
- proliferation
- raise
- raising
- rise
- splay
- spread
- spreading
- surge
- swelling
- tumescence
- up
- upping
- upsurge
- upturn
- waxing
It is the little rift within the lute
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.
