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narrowing
Verb
  • present participle of narrow
Noun
  • The part of a stocking that is narrowed.
narrow
Adjective
  • Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
  • Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  • Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude. figuratively
  • Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
  • Having a small margin or degree.
  • Limited as to means; straitened; pinching. dated
  • Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  • Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  • Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide. phonetics
Verb
  • To reduce in width or extent; to contract. transitive
  • To get narrower. intransitive
  • To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one. knitting
Noun
  • A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water. chiefly in the plural