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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Nar·row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Narrowed p. pr. & vb. n. Narrowing.]
 1. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
 2. To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
    Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings.   --I. Watts.
 3. Knitting To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 narrowed
      adj 1: reduced in size as by squeezing together; "his narrowed
             eyes"
      2: made narrow; limited in breadth; "narrowed arteries impair
         blood circulation"; "a narrowed view of the world"
      3: having the opening reduced squeezed