Hypertext Webster Gateway: "narrowed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Narrow \Nar"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Narrowed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Narrowing}.] [AS. nearwian.]
1. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a
smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of. --Sir
W. Temple.

2. To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal
or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to
narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in
discussion.

Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine
ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. --I.
Watts.

3. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by
taking two stitches into one.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

narrowed
adj 1: reduced in size as by squeezing together; "his narrowed
eyes"
2: made narrow; limited in breadth; "narrowed arteries impair
blood circulation"; "a narrowed view of the world"
3: having the opening reduced squeezed


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