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Narrow

adjective

(compar. narrower; superl. narrowest)

Not wide. "A narrow line across the page"

Limited in size or scope.

Lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view. Synonym: narrow-minded. "Narrow opinions"

Very limited in degree. "A narrow escape"

Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination. Synonym: minute. "A narrow scrutiny" , "An exact and minute report"

verb

(past & past part. narrowed; pres. part. narrowing)

Make or become more narrow or restricted. Synonym: contract. "The road narrowed"

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.

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

noun

(pl. narrows)

A narrow strait connecting two bodies of water.

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"Narrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... proceeded to say that: "Every constitutional process having for its object the linking together of the different component parts of this great Empire is sure to be sympathetically regarded by our Sovereign and I know his hope is that his people who live outside the narrow seas of Great Britain may believe that His Majesty regards them primarily, not as inhabitants of colonies or dependencies of the Mother-country, but as equally valued component parts of ...

— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins

... white-sheeted ghosts hurrying deliriously through the one too-narrow entrance of the lower world," said Kennedy. "Doesn't it remind ...

— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar

... minutes they were in one of those dingy, narrow alleys in the city of London, that look the abode of decent poverty, and they could afford to buy Grosvenor Square for their stables; and Mr. Clinton introduced his friend to a blear-eyed merchant in a large room papered with maps; the windows were incrusted; ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... and he commanded them to bring him to his own city, for it was not there he dwelt at the time but in a small venerable cell which he had ordered to be built for him between the hill called Ardmore Declain and the ocean—in a narrow place at the brink of the sea by which there flows down from the hill above a small shining stream about which are trees and bushes all around, and it is called Disert Declain. Thence to the city it is a short mile and the reason why Declan used go there was to avoid turmoil and ...

— The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore • Anonymous

... Wood-Grass, growing here and there in waste places, but more rare than the former, (from two to four or five feet high,) is still handsomer and of more vivid colors than its congeners, and might well have caught the Indian's eye. It has a long, narrow, one-sided, and slightly nodding panicle of bright purple and yellow flowers, like a banner raised above its reedy leaves. These bright standards are now advanced on the distant hill-sides, not in large armies, but in scattered troops ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various

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