Hẹp, chật hẹp, eo hẹp

a narrow street

một phố hẹp

within narrow bounds

trong phạm vi chật hẹp

Hẹp hòi, nhỏ nhen

narrow mind

trí óc hẹp hòi nhỏ nhen

Kỹ lưỡng, tỉ mỉ

a narrow examination

sự xem xét kỹ lưỡng

to have a narrow escape

Xem escape

to have a narrow squeak (shave)

(thông tục) may mà thoát được, may mà tránh được

narrow victory

thắng lợi đạt được một cách khó khăn; sự thắng chật vật

narrow majority

đa số ít ỏi (số phiếu trong cuộc bầu cử)

the narrow bed (home, house)

nấm mồ

Khúc sông hẹp; đoạn đường phố hẹp; hẽm núi; cửa biển hẹp, cửa sông hẹp

the straight and narrow

cách ứng xử khéo léo và hợp lý

Thu hẹp, làm hẹp lại, co lại, rút lại, thành hẹp hòi

(adj) chật, hẹp, (v) làm hẹp, thu hẹp

thau

thu hẹp

khoảng hẹp

cửa sông hẹp

khúc sông hẹp

đèo

hẻm núi

hẹp

thung lũng hẹp

Adj.

Constricted, slender, slim, thin, restricted,straitened, attenuated, narrowed; narrowing, tapering: Wesqueezed through the narrow passage to freedom.

Confined,confining, limited, cramped, close, meagre, pinched, tight,incommodious: I awoke in a cell so narrow I could scarcelymove.

Strict, careful, close, precise, exact, exacting,demanding, finicky, finical, sharp, meticulous, scrupulous,fussy, rigid, searching, critical: The suspected forgeries weresubmitted to the narrow scrutiny of several experts. 4restricted, limited, circumscribed, proscribed, denotative: Ilearnt the meaning of charity in its narrowest sense.

Seenarrow-minded, below.

Close, hairbreadth, lucky: I'd had avery narrow escape, for the bullet just grazed my scalp.

Stingy, niggardly, parsimonious, miserly, tight, sparing,tight-fisted, mean, mercenary Brit mingy, Dialectal near, Colloqclose: He was so narrow he barely allowed himself theessentials.

V.

Constrict, limit, qualify, reduce, lessen, diminish,decrease: She narrowed her chances of winning by buying onlyone lottery ticket. 9 limit, restrict, focus, confine,concentrate, narrow down: They have narrowed the search for theboy to the area near Chester.

N.

Narrows. strait(s), channel, passage: The vesselapproached the narrows at dead slow speed.

Adj., n., & v.

Adj. (narrower, narrowest) 1 a of small widthin proportion to length; lacking breadth. b confined orconfining; constricted (within narrow bounds).

Of limitedscope; restricted (in the narrowest sense).

With littlemargin (a narrow escape).

Searching; precise; exact (a narrowexamination).

= NARROW-MINDED.

(of a vowel) tense.

Ofsmall size.

N.

(usu. in pl.) the narrow part of a strait,river, sound, etc.

A narrow pass or street.

V.

Intr.become narrow; diminish; contract; lessen.

Tr. make narrow;constrict; restrict.

A success barely attained.

Narrowish adj. narrowly adv. narrowness n. [OE nearu nearw-f. Gmc]