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Synset

make or become more narrow or restricted
<verb.change>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

contract more info
narrow more info

sample sentences

"The selection was narrowed"
"The road narrowed"

verb frames

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

verb frames

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
narrowing narrow
antonym
widen
also see
narrow down
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
contraction
semantic pointers
hypernym
change
hyponym
bottleneck taper off