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Narrowing

noun

An instance of becoming narrow.

A decrease in width.

The act of making something narrower.

adjective

Becoming gradually narrower. Synonyms: tapered, tapering. "Trousers with tapered legs"

(of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom. Synonyms: constricting, constrictive.

Narrow

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.

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"Narrowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... name given to the circle of hunters which, gradually narrowing, hemmed the deer into a small space, where they could ...

— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris

... its constantly widening and narrowing perspectives, its jumble of old and modern houses, had never looked more cheerful as Jack drove rapidly westward. He crossed Kew Bridge, rattled on briskly, and finally entered Richmond, where he pulled up by the curb opposite ...

— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon

... victim? We have heard them refusing him admission or cutting him off, but we have not heard of any considerable aid which they have given to public or private morality. And, further, do we not find them narrowing the circle of obligation, substituting attachment and duty to an order for love and obligations to mankind? Membership in a lodge, not character, is held to make one "worthy," opening the way to favor and society. But can all this be done without sensibly weakening the fundamental ...

— Secret Societies • David MacDill, Jonathan Blanchard, and Edward Beecher

... nearing the Rebel shore,—a suspicion which a glance at the stars corrected,—or else it was the tide itself which had turned, and which was sweeping me down the river with all its force, and was also sucking away at every moment the narrowing water from that treacherous expanse of mud out of whose horrible miry embrace I had lately helped to rescue a ...

— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... telling me your reason for not wearing the diamonds when I desire it," said Grandcourt. His eyes were still fixed upon her, and she felt her own eyes narrowing under them as if to shut out ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

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