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narrowing    音标拼音: [n'ɛroɪŋ]
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narrowing
adj 1: becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers";
"trousers with tapered legs" [synonym: {tapered}, {tapering},
{narrowing}]
2: (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom [synonym:
{constricting}, {constrictive}, {narrowing}]
n 1: an instance of becoming narrow
2: a decrease in width [ant: {broadening}, {widening}]
3: the act of making something narrower [ant: {broadening},
{widening}]

Narrowing \Nar"row*ing\, n.
1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in
breadth or extent.
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2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
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Narrow \Nar"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Narrowed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Narrowing}.] [AS. nearwian.]
1. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a
smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of. --Sir
W. Temple.
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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.
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Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine
ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. --I.
Watts.
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3. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by
taking two stitches into one.
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82 Moby Thesaurus words for "narrowing":
abbreviation, astriction, astringency, ban, bar, barring, blockade,
bottleneck, boycott, cervix, circumscription, coarctation,
compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration,
condensation, confining, consolidation, constriction,
constringency, contraction, contracture, cramping, curtailment,
debarment, debarring, decrease, demarcation, diminuendo,
disentanglement, disinvolvement, distillation, embargo, exception,
exclusion, hourglass, hourglass figure, inadmissibility,
injunction, isthmus, knitting, limitative, limiting, lockout,
narrow place, neck, nonadmission, omission, preclusion,
prohibition, puckering, purification, pursing, reduction,
refinement, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restricting,
restriction, restrictive, shortening, simplification,
solidification, stranglement, strangulation, streamlining,
striction, stricture, stripping, stripping down, systole, taboo,
taper, tapering, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling,
wasp waist, wrinkling

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