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Narrowing

noun

An instance of becoming narrow.

A decrease in width. Antonym: widening.

The act of making something narrower. Antonym: widening.

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" Antonym: widen.

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. Antonym: diversify.

Become tight or as if tight. Synonyms: constrict, constringe.

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"Narrowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... of an antique fane. Brighter and richer than any tints that ever poured through painted oriel flowed the glories of sunset. Dear, pensive glooms of nightfall drooped from the zenith slowly down, narrowing twilight to a belt of dying flame. We were aware of the ever fresh surprise of starlight: the young ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

... the surface again and drew another gasping breath. The storm had torn a rift in the clouds and through it looked the moon as if some god were peering through the curtain of mist to watch the havoc he was working. By this light Harrigan saw that he was being drawn down in a narrowing circle. Straight before him loomed a black fragment of the wreckage. He tried to swing to one side, but the current of the water bore him on. He received a heavy blow on the head and his senses went ...

— Harrigan • Max Brand

... where the stream widened into a shallow rippling river with one or two small islands in it. At one of these places they crossed where it was only knee-deep in the centre, and finally stopped at the end of a reach, where a sudden narrowing of the banks produced a brawling rapid. Below this there was a deep pool caused by ...

— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne

... if not upon the traditions of the past? It would amount to an attempt at revolution not by the poor, but by the rich; not by the masses, but by the privileged few; not in the name of progress, but in that of reaction; not for the purpose of broadening the framework of the State, but of greatly narrowing it. Such an attempt, whatever you may think of it, would be historic in its character, and the result of the battle fought upon it, whoever wins, must inevitably be not of an annual, but of a permanent and final character. The result of such an election must mean ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... narrowing conceptions! Can it be imagined that God would consign infants to everlasting torment, simply because they are children of unbelieving parents? A thousand times No! Let us remember that they are His own children, whatever earthly parentage they may have. His love and power are not going to ...

— Love's Final Victory • Horatio

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