单词 | narrowed |
释义 | narrowedadj. Contracted, lessened in breadth or width (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > reduced in size or extent minished1590 narrowed1599 diminished1607 shorn1853 ensmalled1857 reduced1880 Sanforized1968 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [adjective] narrowed1599 narrow-minded1611 narrow1612 small1619 narrow1622 tub-brained1634 narrow-souled1641 narrow-spirited1645 narrow-compassed1647 illiberal1649 cat-witted1672 stingy1694 little-minded1707 straitened1712 unenlarged1741 contracted1765 one-eyed1779 unliberalized1793 nippit1808 small-minded1811 narrow-brained1835 narrow visioned1853 thin-minded1862 narrow-gauge1872 one-track1900 narrow-gutted1903 tunnel-visioned1968 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > breadth or width > lack of breadth or narrowness > [adjective] > narrowed straited1581 narrowed1599 1599 S. Daniel Let. from Octavia xviii. sig. C, in Poet. Ess. Yet oft our narrowed thoughts look more direct Then your loose wisdoms. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vi. 6 In the wall of the house hee made narrowed rests round about. View more context for this quotation 1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 204 It would be giving that term too narrowed a meaning. 1817 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 3) 199 Narrowed heavy-spar..is an oblique four-sided table. 1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 84 With a narrowed eye he peered. 1910 Daily Chron. 19 Apr. 8/4 Ere the end of the story, the hard and narrowed man had blossomed into a magnate of the first water. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxx. 506 ‘Tell me, only tell me,’ he reiterated in a dangerous narrowed voice. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) viii. 161 The valvular opening is either excessively narrowed (stenosis) or unduly widened (incompetence). 2000 J. Griffiths Grip on Thin Air 27 A boy lies at the edge of the field With narrowed eyes and fingers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1599 |
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