Crossword clues for narrowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narrow \Nar"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Narrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Narrowing.] [AS. nearwian.]
To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
--Sir W. Temple.-
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.
Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings.
--I. Watts. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
Narrowing \Nar"row*ing\, n.
The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.
The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
Wiktionary
n. The part of a stocking that is narrowed. vb. (present participle of narrow English)
WordNet
adj. becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs" [syn: tapered, tapering]
(of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom [syn: constricting, constrictive]
n. an instance of becoming narrow
a decrease in width [ant: widening]
the act of making something narrower [ant: widening]
Usage examples of "narrowing".
If you object to my terminology as exalting too much the common man, as putting sacred things to profane use, as demeaning prophecy and nobility and poesy, I shall answer that it is because of the narrowing definitions of convention that only the makers of verses, and not all of those, are poets, that only men of certain birth or ancestry or favor are dukes, and that prophets have entirely disappeared.
As she sized me up, her eyes narrowing, the cigarette hung aslant from her mouth.
The peninsulas sprouted grasping tendrils, thigh-thick at the trunk but narrowing to the dimensions of plant fronds, and then narrowing further, bifurcating into lacy, fernlike hazes of awesome complexity.
Then it split into two parallel shafts, each violet rod narrowing in an instant and chopping through its targeted Dreadnought like an axe through a neck.
Mr Cecil, delighted at the possibility of mischief arising from this narrowing down of the party, struck out for himself and declared that ideas for Hoowarnese-inspired designs were simmering on the hob, duckies, and he must get out Little Red Attashy case and dash them down forthwith.
The cyclone was a giant storm that intruded into the flyway, narrowing it to less than one-quarter its normal six thousand kilometer width.
The centuries old storm was so named because it intruded deeply into the flyway, narrowing the safe passage lane to less than five hundred kilometers.
He rolled his Intelligencer sideways, narrowing his vulnerable area as he slipped between them.
A half-cup of cooked kale, collard greens, or spinach delivers at least 13 milligrams of the carotenoid called lutein, which is shown to help prevent narrowing or hardening of the arteries.
Another attack was coming, the last reserves of the Division being fed into the ditch, and that was the moment, the hopeless moment, when the feeble idea, based only on the narrowing width of the ravelin, must be tried.
The street, narrowing, closed in upon her and veiled her in its own obscurity, on either hand a palace, its deep windows barred in behind wrought-iron grilles, its sgraffito walls corrugating the darkness with deeper shadows.
The narrowing effect of the river is adding an extra metre to tide levels and water first begins to come over the Tewkes Creek wall, filling the drainage ditch behind and penetrating into the caravan park.
It ended abruptly under two leaning palms, narrowing to an Indian-file path through sand dunes and tufty grass toward the sea.
And besides, she had witnessed me unmasked and had shown no reaction, and once I saw her bend near the fire with her eyes still raised to the woman she listened to, and there was no narrowing of the pupils.
He called an image to the screen before them, showed them the familiar area of their recent operations, which by stripping away vital personnel and leaving chaos on the stations left one lone untampered station like the narrowing of a funnel toward Pell, toward the wide straggle of Hinder Stars.