narrowed : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: narrowed	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
narrowed adj reduced in size as by squeezing together; "his narrowed eyes" made narrow; limited in breadth; "narrowed arteries impair blood circulation"; "a narrowed view of the world"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narrow \Nar"row\, v. t. [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.