NARROWING
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Scrabble
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WWF
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Definition
verb
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.“We need to narrow the search.”
- To get narrower.“The road narrows.”
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.“He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.”
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.“to narrow an int variable to a short variable”
noun
- The process of becoming narrow.“narrowings of the road”
- The part of a stocking that is narrowed.
Source: Wiktionary
