Definitions for Narrows

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Narrows nar·row

Spelling: [nar-oh]

IPA: /ˈnær oʊ/

Narrows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in Narrows (anorrsw).

Definitions for Narrows

noun

1. a narrow part, place, or thing.
2. a narrow part of a valley, passage, or road.
3. narrows, (used with a singular or plural verb) a narrow part of a strait, river, ocean current, etc.
4. The Narrows, a narrow strait from upper to lower New York Bay, between Staten Island and Long Island. 2 miles (3.2 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.

adjective

1. of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected:
2. limited in extent or space; affording little room:
3. limited in range or scope:
4. lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas:
5. with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close:
6. careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry.
7. limited in amount; small; meager:
8. straitened; impoverished:
9. New England. stingy or parsimonious.
10. Phonetics. (of a vowel) articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense. Compare lax (def 7). (of a phonetic transcription) utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties. Compare broad (def 14).
11. (of livestock feeds) proportionately rich in protein.

verb (used with object)

1. to make narrower.
2. to limit or restrict (often followed by down):
3. to make narrow-minded:

verb (used without object)

1. to decrease in width or breadth:

Origin of Narrows

before 900; Middle English; Old English nearu; cognate with Old Saxon naru narrow, Dutch naar unpleasant; akin to German Narbe scar, literally, narrow mark

Examples for Narrows

It narrows your options on how you will spend your time, money and attention.

The headline screamed across the homepage of the Drudge Report: ROMNEY narrows VP CHOICES; CONDI EMERGES AS FRONTRUNNER.

They are sure they will have the whip hand of the narrows by to-morrow.

Again he heard the hail––his own name, coming from that point at the narrows.

Did you tell her—Aunt Keziah—when you met her at the narrows?

Daniel Gross narrows down the list of suspects, from Elizabeth Warren and Wall Street to the brilliant economist himself.

And between ourselves what dupery there is in science, how it narrows our horizon!

On the other hand, getting too close to the threshold dramatically raises your risk and narrows your choices.

Sarrail with his six divisions behind him could open the narrows in no time.

After a while the batteries along the narrows slipped into view.