verb
- Make or become more narrow or restricted.
- usage: "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
- Define clearly.
- usage: "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"
- Become more focus on an area of activity or field of study.
- usage: "She specializes in Near Eastern history"
- synonyms: specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
- Become tight or as if tight.
- usage: "Her throat constricted"
- synonyms: constrict, constringe, narrow
adjective
- Reduced in size as by squeezing together.
- usage: "his narrowed eyes"
- Made narrow; limited in breadth.
- usage: "narrowed arteries impair blood circulation"; "a narrowed view of the world"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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