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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Narrow \Nar"row\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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.
Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. --I. Watts.
3. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
narrowed \narrowed\ adjective reduced in size as if by being squeezed.
Syn: constricted. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
narrowed
adjective
1: reduced in size as by squeezing together; "his narrowed eyes"
2: made narrow; limited in breadth; "narrowed arteries impair blood circulation"; "a narrowed view of the world"
3: having the opening reduced squeezed
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