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narrowing 音标拼音: [n'ɛroɪŋ] 缩小 缩小 narrowing adj 1: becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs" [synonym: {tapered}, {tapering}, {narrowing}] 2: (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom [synonym: {constricting}, {constrictive}, {narrowing}] n 1: an instance of becoming narrow 2: a decrease in width [ant: {broadening}, {widening}] 3: the act of making something narrower [ant: {broadening}, {widening}] Narrowing \Nar"row*ing\, n. 1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. [1913 Webster] 2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 3. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one. [1913 Webster] 82 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 {Unification} followed by {unfolding}. The left-hand side of
a {rule} is unified with some term, resulting in a set of variable bindings. The term is then replaced by the right-hand side of the rule with values substituted for {bound variables}. verengend[Adjective]
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