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narrowing
noun as in shortening
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Then a slowing down, the sound narrowing from a dark mass to a single line.
This strain of enterovirus seems unusually provocative in irritating lower airways, thereby causing airway narrowing.
The village sits along a narrowing vein of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the mighty Amazon.
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 295 people aboard crashed and suspicion is narrowing on pro-Russian separatists.
Perhaps most importantly, normalizing marriage is a narrowing, rather than an expanding, of sexual possibility.
He missed Flora's gay letter of gossip, and looked with narrowing lids at the pile of newspapers.
Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.
Unlike his pony prototypes, his was a lengthy, arched neck, held high from narrowing withers and a short back.
And as the narrowing process progressed, she said, the exhausting or vampire quality grew and grew.
Opportunities were narrowing down rapidly—the canoe was perilously close, and so many of his bullets went astray.
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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to narrowing, such as: contraction, consolidation, lessening, reduction, restricting, and tightening.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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