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Narrow

adjective

(compar. narrower; superl. narrowest)

Not wide. "A narrow line across the page"

Limited in size or scope.

Lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view. Synonym: narrow-minded. "Narrow opinions"

Very limited in degree. "A narrow escape"

Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination. Synonym: minute. "A narrow scrutiny" , "An exact and minute report"

verb

(past & past part. narrowed; pres. part. narrowing)

Make or become more narrow or restricted. Synonym: contract. "The road narrowed"

Define clearly. Synonyms: nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify.

Become more focus on an area of activity or field of study. Synonyms: narrow down, specialise, specialize.

Become tight or as if tight. Synonyms: constrict, constringe.

noun

(pl. narrows)

A narrow strait connecting two bodies of water.

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"Narrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... to contract the lines of defense, so as to diminish the garrison to the limit necessary to defend its narrow and vital parts, instead of embracing, as the lines now do, the vast suburbs. This contraction of the lines, with the necessary citadels and redoubts, will make it necessary to destroy the very houses ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... time threading a lane so narrow that he could touch a wall with either hand, when it began to open out and go sharply downward. Plainly this lay no longer in the direction of his inn; but the hope of a little more light tempted him forward to reconnoitre. The lane ended in a terrace ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

... embroider in a frame with silk, And to sketch and design the wild and tame Beasts of the forest and field? Also to picture on plain surfaces; Round about to place golden borders— narrow and a broad one— With stags and ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... small voice had suddenly spoken in her mind, and said: "Brace up." Presently she stopped crying, as became one who had been made the subject of a manifestation, and began to put her hair in order at the narrow mirror between the two windows. Meanwhile, though Mr. Holiday was making himself scarce, as the saying is, he was consumed with interest to know why the beautiful girl was weeping. And he ...

— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... bluff north of the river Carolyn June and Skinny checked their horses while the girl gazed down on the panorama of green fields, narrow lanes, corrals and low buildings of the Quarter Circle KT. The sight thrilled her. On all the Kiowa range there was no ...

— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman

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