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narrow is an adjective, verb and noun meaning "not wide". It carries 10 recorded senses.
not wide
“a narrow bridge”
“a narrow line across the page”
lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
“a brilliant but narrow-minded judge”
“narrow opinions”
make or become more narrow or restricted
“The selection was narrowed”
“The road narrowed”
define clearly
“I cannot narrow down the rules for this game”
become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
“She specializes in Near Eastern history”
become tight or as if tight
“Her throat constricted”
a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for narrow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.