narrows

Verb

narrow (third-person singular simple present narrows, present participle narrowing, simple past and past participle narrowed)

1. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
   • We need to narrow the search.
2. (intransitive) To get narrower.
   • The road narrows.
3. To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
   • He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
4. To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
5. (transitive) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
   • to narrow an int variable to a short variable

   Antonyms:

   widen

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