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[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun narrowing has 3 senses

1.  narrowing(n = noun.attribute) - an instance of becoming narrow;
is a kind of
configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape
has particulars: coarctation, taper, bottleneck, chokepoint, constriction
Derived form verb narrow4

2.  narrowing(n = noun.process) - a decrease in width;
is a kind of
decrease, decrement
Antonym: widening

3.  narrowing(n = noun.act) - the act of making something narrower;
is a kind of
change of shape
Antonym: widening
Derived form verb narrow1


Adjective narrowing has 2 senses

1.  narrowing(s = adj.all) tapered, tapering - becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs"

2.  narrowing(s = adj.all) constricting, constrictive - (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom;


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

narrowing, n.

1.  The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. [1913 Webster]

2.  The part of a stocking which is narrowed. [1913 Webster]


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Thinness

N  narrowness, thinness, narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction, narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c (expand), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular.