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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun narrowing has 3 senses

• narrowing(n = noun.attribute) Array - an instance of becoming narrow; Array
is a kind of configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape
has particulars: coarctation, taper, bottleneck, chokepoint, constriction
Derived form verb narrow₄

• narrowing(n = noun.process) Array - a decrease in width; Array
is a kind of decrease, decrement
Antonym: widening

• narrowing(n = noun.act) Array - the act of making something narrower; Array
is a kind of change of shape
Derived form verb narrow₁
Antonym: widening

Adjective narrowing has 2 senses

• narrowing(s = adj.all) tapered, tapering - becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs"
• narrowing(s = adj.all) constricting, constrictive - (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom; Array

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THESAURUS

narrowing

abbreviation, astriction, astringency, ban, bar, barring, blockade, bottleneck, boycott, cervix, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, confining, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, cramping, curtailment, debarment, debarring, decrease, demarcation, diminuendo, disentanglement, disinvolvement, distillation, embargo, exception, exclusion, hourglass, hourglass figure, inadmissibility, injunction, isthmus, knitting, limitative, limiting, lockout, narrow place, neck, nonadmission, omission, preclusion, prohibition, puckering, purification, pursing, reduction, refinement, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restricting, restriction, restrictive, shortening, simplification, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, streamlining, striction, stricture, stripping, stripping down, systole, taboo, taper, tapering, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling, wasp waist, wrinkling

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narrowing

Thinness

N narrowness, thinness, narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction, narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c (expand), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular.

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