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of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected.

limited in extent or space; affording little room.

limited in range or scope.

lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas.

with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close.

careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry.

limited in amount; small; meager.

characterized by limited means; straitened; impoverished.

New England.��stingy or parsimonious.

Phonetics.��

1. (of a vowel) articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense.

2. (of a phonetic transcription) utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties.

(of livestock feeds) proportionately rich in protein.

to make narrower.

to limit or restrict (often followed bydown ): to narrow down a contest to three competitors.

to make narrow-minded.

a narrow part, place, or thing.

a narrow part of a valley, passage, or road.

(used with a singular or plural verb)��narrows, a narrow part of a strait, river, ocean current, etc.

the Narrows, a narrow strait from upper to lower New York Bay, between Staten Island and Long Island. 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) long; 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) wide.