Word Finder - narrowed

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To reduce in width or extent; to contract.

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We need to narrow the search.

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To get narrower.

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The road narrows.

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(of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.

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He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.

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To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

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To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.

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to narrow an int variable to a short variable

His eyes narrowed, and one palm moved on the hilt of his sword.

His gaze narrowed, as if about to accuse her of lying.

Her green eyes narrowed as she looked at me.

But even in this crowning triumph the cramping egotism of his nature - a mental vice which now grew on him rapidly - fatally narrowed his outlook and led him to commit an irretrievable blunder.

He widened his eyes then narrowed them in an attempt to focus.

The kingly power in Poland, like the ducal power at Venice, had been so narrowed that Poland, though she still kept a king, called herself a republic no less than Venice.

The halls narrowed and sloped, and he knew he'd been this way before even though he didn't remember when.

Sofia followed him as the halls angled up and narrowed until Two had to walk through them sideways.

The mine tunnel narrowed and the pair was forced to hunch down under the low ceiling that closed in the fetid air around them like a soaked and musty blanket.

When they approached the area known as The Drinking Cup, the road narrowed and barely clung to the rock wall, a breath-gulping overhang hundreds of feet above the river.

Past-Death's eyes narrowed.

When the world narrowed, he released her.

His eyes flared then narrowed.

Spotting the bag, she narrowed her brow.

She narrowed her eyes while slipping into her robe.

The sub-epithelial layer consists primarily of the so-called inter stitial cells, lodged between the narrowed basal portions of the epithelial cells.

But in the 19th century and after exploring work was so generally and steadily maintained in all directions, and was in so many cases narrowed down from long journeys to detailed surveys within relatively small areas, that i t becomes desirable to cover the whole period at one view for certain great divisions of the world.

Moreover, the Church of Jerusalem, narrowed by Jewish Christian particularism, was hardly qualified to remain the metropolis of Christianity, which was gradually gaining ground in the Graeco-Roman world.

Modern criticism, however, has narrowed the issue.

Jackson narrowed his eyes and yelled, "She's a werewolf!"

She stopped upon seeing Jackson's eyes narrowed in warning to leave this alone.

She narrowed her brow at him.

Elisabeth narrowed her eyes.

Jackson narrowed his eyes and growled, Don't even think it.

She narrowed her brow, confused.

She narrowed the distance again, this time rising up on her tiptoes to kiss him lightly on the lips, the final push over the cliff on which he teetered.

Jonny's eyes narrowed as he looked at the healer.

He was wary but not on guard, his stance relaxed and eyes narrowed.

Rob's head jerked up and his eyes narrowed.

The road gradually narrowed and climbed through hills choked with brush and huge oak trees.

With his choice of prey, he narrowed in on a gorgeous blonde who seemed out of place, one of the few not wearing fangs or dressed from head-to-foot in black.

Its glowing red eyes narrowed into slits then closed.

His eyes were narrowed.

In its long course it varies greatly both in depth and width, in some parts being only a few feet deep and spreading out to a width of more than a mile, while in other and mountainous portions of its course its channel is narrowed to 300 or 400 ft., and its depth is increased in inverse ratio.

Granted that instinctive modes of behaviour are hereditary and definite within the limits of congenital variation, the question of their manner of genesis is narrowed to a clear issue.

Opisthosoma consisting of only ten somites, which have no tergal and sternal elements, the prae-genital somite contracted to form a " waist," as in the Pedipalpi; the last three narrowed to form a A B prae-1 2345 6789 io I I111I IV V VI gen Opisttaosoma Prosoma FIG.

In 1886 the " New Republic " with limits considerably narrowed, was recognised by Great Britain, and the territory became incorporated with the Transvaal in 1888.

The government of the Deys lasted till 1705, but vas soon narrowed or overshadowed by the authority of the Beys, whose Beys.

This fold often covers also the whole free rim of the upper lid, so that the insertion of the eyelashes is hidden and the opening between the lids is so narrowed as to disappear altogether at the moment of laughter.

The ability of former times exists and is exercised in the old way, though the field for its employment has been greatly narrowed.

By the Pluralities Act 1850, the restriction was further narrowed, so that no spiritual person could hold two benefices except the churches of such benefices were within three miles of each other by the nearest road, and the annual value of one of such benefices did not exceed £loo.

Within the narrowed limits of his kingdom Christian's difficulties were more protracted and hardly less serious.

Running south-east through Sumatra, east through Java and the southern islands to Timor, curving north through the Moluccas, and again north, from the end of Celebes through the whole line of the Philippines, they follow a line roughly resembling a horseshoe narrowed towards the point.

The choice is narrowed down to A.D.

Long before his time, however, the issue had been narrowed down to determining exactly how far the pope should be allowed to interfere in French ecclesiastical affairs.

The lower jaw is characterized by its abruptly narrowed and rounded front part supporting the pair of large in cisors, as well as by the small size of the coronoid process, and the great development of the lower hind, or angular, portion.

Where the security is bad the market is narrowed; the individuals who are prepared to lend the money on merely personal security require a high rate of interest.

Sometimes the Ressurrection is narrowed down to the resurrection of the righteous, at others widened out to the resurrection of all mankind for the last judgment.

The slit is narrowed down to the desired width, and moved as a whole by a micrometer screw, until it coincides with the cross-hair.

The bearings for receiving these trunnions are V-shaped; the V on one side is fixed, while the other is cut through and can be narrowed or made wider, thus lifting or lowering the trunnion by means of two capstan-headed screws.