narrowing

Meaning of narrowing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. become or make less wide.
    the road narrowed and crossed an old bridge
    the Victoria Embankment was built to narrow the river
  2. 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.
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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:

tapered, tapering

Meaning constricting:

constricting, constrictive

Meaning diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end:

taper

Meaning make or become less:

diminish

Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:

decrease

Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:

reduce

Meaning (of a muscle) become shorter and tighter in order to effect movement of part of the body:

contract

Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:

shrink

Meaning make narrower, especially by encircling pressure:

constrict

Meaning make or become narrow:

straiten

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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