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Narrowing

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    shrinking

    "Such amity is no small thing. The narrowing world of Yiddish theater has been bedeviled with one “broyges — a cherished term for a falling out — after another"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom wordnet
  2. 2
    becoming gradually narrower wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The process of becoming narrow.

    "narrowings of the road"

  2. 2
    the act of making something narrower wordnet
  3. 3
    The part of a stocking that is narrowed.

    "It may be observed, as a general rule, that the length of a stocking, before the narrowings, should be, at the least, equal to twice the width of the top..."

  4. 4
    an instance of becoming narrow wordnet
  5. 5
    a decrease in width wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Present participle and gerund of narrow. form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles."

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