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narrowed |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. --I. Watts. 3. (Knitting) To contract the size of as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: narrowed adj 1: reduced in size as by squeezing together; "his narrowed eyes" 2: made narrow; limited in breadth; "narrowed arteries impair blood circulation"; "a narrowed view of the world" 3: having the opening reduced squeezed
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