narrowing
verb
Definitions
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
Example: We need to narrow the search.
To get narrower.
Example: The road narrows.
(of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
Example: He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
noun
Definitions
The process of becoming narrow.
Example: narrowings of the road
The part of a stocking that is narrowed.