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▸ adjective: Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
▸ adjective: (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
▸ adjective: Having a small margin or degree.
▸ adjective: (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
▸ adjective: Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
▸ adjective: Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
▸ adjective: (phonetics) 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.
▸ noun: (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
▸ verb: (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To get narrower.
▸ verb: (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
▸ verb: (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
▸ verb: (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
▸ adjective: Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
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strait,
tapered,
limited,
constrictive,
thin,
constringe,
slender,
bare,
narrow-minded,
narrow down,
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