narrowing (n.)
- abbreviation
- astringency
- ban
- bar
- barring
- blockade
- bottleneck
- boycott
- cervix
- circumscription
- coarctation
- compaction
- compression
- concentration
- condensation
- consolidation
- constriction
- contraction
- contracture
- curtailment
- debarment
- decrease
- demarcation
- diminuendo
- disentanglement
- distillation
- embargo
- exception
- exclusion
- hourglass
- inadmissibility
- injunction
- isthmus
- knitting
- limiting
- lockout
- neck
- omission
- preclusion
- prohibition
- purification
- reduction
- refinement
- rejection
- relegation
- repudiation
- restriction
- shortening
- simplification
- solidification
- strangulation
- striction
- stricture
- stripping
- systole
- taboo
- taper
- tapering
- unsnarling
narrowing (adj.)
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace!