To narrower something is to make it narrower or smaller. When you narrow a road, you make it so that cars can only go in one direction.
The company is trying to narrower the competition by making it harder to get permits.
The fabric is narrower than the standard size, which means that it's not very wide.
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Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
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Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
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Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
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Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
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Having a small margin or degree.
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Limited as to means; straitened
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Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
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Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
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Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
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The width of the properties was comparatively narrow.
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The arches are relatively narrow in relation to the width of the shoulders.
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The narrow streets of the old city can be clogged with traffic.
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A single cab was splashing its way from the narrow corner of the street.
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The maze of narrow streets behind the old harbor forms the core of the old town.
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These residential buildings are in narrow streets and alleys, making it near to impossible to provide emergency help in case of any mischance.
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It is the result of narrowed airways.
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The scope of the dread is narrow.
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In the Singaporean variant, the noodles are narrower.
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The gorge is the narrow section of the valley.