Narrowing
adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The process of becoming narrow.
"narrowings of the road"
- 2 the act of making something narrower wordnet
- 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 an instance of becoming narrow wordnet
- 5 a decrease in width wordnet
- 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."
- 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"
- 1 (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom wordnet
- 2 becoming gradually narrower wordnet
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More examples"This hallway keeps narrowing as I go farther and farther in."
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