Lexic.us

Definition of Narrowed

1. Adjective. Reduced in size as by squeezing together. "His narrowed eyes"

2. Adjective. Made narrow; limited in breadth. "A narrowed view of the world"

Definition of Narrowed

1. Verb. (past of narrow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Narrowed

1. narrow [v] - See also: narrow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Narrowed

narrow mindedness narrow sea narrow seas narrow wale narrowband narrowboat narrowboats narrowbodies narrowbody narrowbody aircraft

narrowcast narrowcasted narrowcasting narrowcastings narrowcasts narrowed (current term) narrower narrowers narrowest narrowhead

narrowhead morel narrowing narrowingly narrowings narrowish narrowly narrowminded narrowmindedly narrowmindedness narrowness

Literary usage of Narrowed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... sessile or some short-petioled from a narrowed base, chiefly opposite: heads ... entire or sparingly dentate, narrowed at base, J to ü inches long, ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Biennial, several feet high, white-tomentose: lower Ivs. lanceolate, acute, narrowed to the petiole; cauline sessile, oblong, cordate- auriculate; ..."

3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"... which The simple truth is that, by the destructive power narrowed the region of the cliff batteries on the one hand, and the form of of the tive im. ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"We may at first detach from them those whose testa is almost ovoid, narrowed and truncated transversely in front, whose tail presents distinctly in the ..."

5. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... narrowed at the base ; sterile peduncle included pet.ils nearly alike, ... narrowed at the base, pubescent on both clusters axillary and terminal, ..."

6. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"The eyes, while narrowed, are scarcely as constricted as in the type of the ... the eyes are narrowed, and the frontal protuberance is quite different. ..."

Other Resources: