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UK
/nˈæɹəʊd/
]
[ US /ˈnɛɹoʊd/ ]
[ US /ˈnɛɹoʊd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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made narrow; limited in breadth
a narrowed view of the world
narrowed arteries impair blood circulation -
reduced in size as by squeezing together
his narrowed eyes
How To Use narrowed In A Sentence
- And the chances of that happening on the Down Under tour have narrowed due to England's injury crisis.
- Bumper to bumper we proceeded, the road narrowed and things became hairy.
- It was a driveway that narrowed at the road, then widened as gracefully as stemware.
- After four hours afloat, the gorge narrowed to some two hundred yards. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
- Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson. DARKWATER
- Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft. Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
- In the past decade, so-called decimalization -- pricing stocks in pennies from fractions of a dollar -- and the automation of trading narrowed a broad field of retail market makers to the dominant five. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Gerhardt touched Veronica's hand and nodded towards the rostrum, his eyes narrowed. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- The benefit was narrowed.
- It hardly needs Mr. Willkie to tell us that advances in aeronautics and the field of science generally have narrowed the physical boundaries of the world. The Making Of The Peace