"narrow down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-narrow down.ogg [Australia] Forms: narrows down [present, singular, third-person], narrowing down [participle, present], narrowed down [participle, past], narrowed down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} narrow down (third-person singular simple present narrows down, present participle narrowing down, simple past and past participle narrowed down)
  1. (idiomatic) To make more specific. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to make more specific): свеждам до (sveždam do) (Bulgarian), einengen (German), eingrenzen (German), einschränken (German), zuspitzen (German), angustō (Latin), daraltmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-narrow_down-en-verb-kZI~l~Hf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (down)

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          "word": "свеждам до"
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          "sense": "to make more specific",
          "word": "angustō"
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          "sense": "to make more specific",
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      "roman": "sveždam do",
      "sense": "to make more specific",
      "word": "свеждам до"
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      "sense": "to make more specific",
      "word": "einengen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make more specific",
      "word": "eingrenzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make more specific",
      "word": "einschränken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make more specific",
      "word": "zuspitzen"
    },
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "to make more specific",
      "word": "angustō"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to make more specific",
      "word": "daraltmak"
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