narrowing
Meaning of narrowing
verb, gerund or present participle
- become or make less wide.
the road narrowed and crossed an old bridge
the Victoria Embankment was built to narrow the river
- become or make more limited in extent or scope.
the gap between the sexes is narrowing
the trade surplus narrowed to £70 m in January
the committee narrowed the selection to three designers
Old English nearu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch naar ‘dismal, unpleasant’ and German Narbe ‘scar’. Early senses in English included ‘constricted’ and ‘mean’.
Information about narrowing
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of narrowing is: narrowings.
- Languages in which narrowing is used:
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Hyphenation of narrowing
nar-row-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- narrowing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
narrowing synonyms
Meaning tapered:
Meaning constricting:
Meaning diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning (of a muscle) become shorter and tighter in order to effect movement of part of the body:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning make narrower, especially by encircling pressure:
Meaning make or become narrow:
Words that rhyme with narrowing
Wing, wing, adawing, awing, bandsawing, begnawing, blawing, cawing, chainsawing, chawing, clapperclawing, clawing, counterdrawing, dawing, declawing, dragsawing, drawing, finedrawing, flawing, gnawing, guffawing, hacksawing, hawing, heehawing, horsedrawing, indrawing, inlawing, jawing, jigsawing, kawing, lawing, mawing, microdrawing, misdrawing, nonsawing, outawing, outdrawing, outgnawing, outlawing, overawing, overcrawing, overdrawing, parawing, pawawing, pawing, pickmawing, predrawing, pshawing, quartersawing, rawing
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