narrowed Definition

narrow
adj narrower, narrowest

1. Having little breadth, especially in comparison with length.
2. Said of interests or experience: restricted; limited.
3. Said of attitudes or ideas: illiberal or unenlightened; intolerant or bigoted.

Thesaurus: dogmatic, intolerant, parochial, narrow-minded, prejudiced, irrational, stupid, bigoted, exclusive, mean, niggardly, illiberal, small-minded; Antonym: liberal, tolerant.
4. Said of the use of a word: restricted to its precise or original meaning; strict.

Example: in its narrowest sense
5. Close; only just achieved, etc.

Example: a narrow escape

noun

1. A narrow part or place.
2. A narrow part of a channel or river, etc.

Form: narrows

verb, tr & intr narrowed, narrowing

1. To make or become narrow.
2a. Said eg of a range of possibilities: to be reduced or limited;

Thesaurus: circumscribe, diminish, limit, reduce, straiten; Antonym: broaden, increase.
Form: narrow something down (also)
2b. To reduce it.

Form: narrow something down (also)

Derivative: narrowness
noun

Etymology: Anglo Saxon nearu.