narrows
Meaning of narrows
verb, 3rd person present
- 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
- a narrow channel connecting two larger areas of water.
there was a car ferry across the narrows of Loch Long
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 narrows
- The singular form of narrows is: narrow.
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Hyphenation of narrows
nar-rows
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- narrows is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
narrows synonyms
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:
Meaning vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear:
Meaning the part of a person's or animal's body connecting the head to the rest of the body:
Meaning a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas:
Meaning a river, canal, or other route for travel by water:
Meaning the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another:
Words that rhyme with narrows
rows, brows, eyebrows, highbrows, lowbrows, middlebrows, overbrows, Crows, cockcrows, crows, escrows, gorcrows, outcrows, overcrows, pilcrows, scarecrows, scrows, drows, shedrows, windrows, budgerows, fencerows, hedgerows, serows, frows, grows, intergrows, misgrows, outgrows, overgrows, regrows, upgrows, downthrows, misthrows, outthrows, overthrows, shrows, throws, upthrows, windthrows, checkrows, cornrows, prows, Burrows, Narrows, Sorrows, arrows, backarrows, barrows, borrows
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