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/nˈɛroʊɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Narrow v. t. (past & past part. narrowed; pres. part. narrowing)

1.

To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.

2.

To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion. "Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings."

3.

(Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

Narrow v. i.

1.

To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.

2.

(Man.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.

3.

(Knitting) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

noun

Narrowing n.

1.

The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.

2.

The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

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Etymology of 'Narrowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Narrowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... about whom those who screamed had heard something unpleasant—oh, yes, yellow!—lanced down the narrowing aisle between radiator and fenders. He struck Felicity like a vicious tackler yet did not go down, but leaped again. As the cars crunched together they slithered through the crowd, across the walk, against a wall, into a heap. And the fall hurt Perry a little, even ...

— Winner Take All • Larry Evans

... weaker bidders, from getting any of the desired goods, or limits them to their most urgently desired units. What may be called "the theoretically correct price"[3] with two-sided competition is the one that permits the maximum number of trades with a margin of gain to each trader. In narrowing the possibility of substitution of goods by trade, the sum of values of goods for most men is diminished. All citizens thus that are the victims of an artificially created scarcity look upon monopoly as "bad," just as they do upon the evils ...

— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

... of a peculiar razor-shape paho were found, two of which are shown in plate CLXXV, o, s. The paho shown in figure d is flat on one side and rounded on the other, narrowing at one end, where it was probably continued in a shaft, and a hole is punctured at the opposite extremity, as if for suspension. It is barely possible that this may have been a whizzer or bull-roarer, such ...

— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 • Jesse Walter Fewkes

... old shapes and foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

... twilight between the fantastic stories of the earlier paganism and the clear records of the Christian epoch after the re-Latinisation of England. An outpost beyond these three is the institution of St Frideswides at Oxford. Beyond that point the upper river, gradually narrowing, losing its importance for commerce and as a highway, supported no great monastery, and felt but tardily the economic change wrought by the foundations lower ...

— The Historic Thames • Hilaire Belloc

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