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Narrowing

noun

An instance of becoming narrow.

A decrease in width.

The act of making something narrower.

adjective

Becoming gradually narrower. Synonyms: tapered, tapering. "Trousers with tapered legs"

(of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom. Synonyms: constricting, constrictive.

Narrow

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.

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"Narrowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... letter, with all his might, to shame and to argue the Corinthian Christians out of their wrangling. This great text is one of the considerations which he adduces with that purpose. In effect he says, 'To pin your faith to any one teacher is a wilful narrowing of the sources of your blessing and your wisdom. You say you are Paul's men. Has Apollos got nothing that he could teach you? and may you not get any good out of brave brother Cephas? Take them all; they were all meant for your good. Let no ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... be compared with the positive blessings of Christianity. How many, especially among the young, has this one mistaken phrase driven forever away from the kingdom of God? Instead of making Christ attractive, it makes Him out a taskmaster, narrowing life by petty restrictions, calling for self-denial where none is necessary, making misery a virtue under the plea that it is the yoke of Christ, and happiness criminal because it now and then evades it. According ...

— Addresses • Henry Drummond

... however, the whole face of the country was thickly- wooded, cocoa-nuts and bananas being conspicuously abundant. The beach ran about three-fourths round the basin, being broadest immediately in front of the ravine, and gradually narrowing away to nothing at about a mile's distance on ...

— For Treasure Bound • Harry Collingwood

... horse advanced round the little bend in the ever-narrowing cliffs, and there in front of me, under the gigantic mass of overhanging rock, appeared the kraal of Zikali surrounded by its reed fence. The gate of the fence was open, and beyond it, on his stool in front of ...

— Finished • H. Rider Haggard

... and the narrowing of the river took it at last from view; and after it disappeared the spindling chimneys and their smoke, which were along the bank above the town and bridge, leaving us to progress through the solitude of marsh and wood and shore. The green levels of stiff salt ...

— Lady Baltimore • Owen Wister

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