窄

Meaning

窄 centers on making something narrower or more closed: physically narrowing an opening, folding or furling something to reduce its width, or puckering and shutting tightly. The shrug sense is a natural extension of drawing inward.

• 狭窄きょうさく

  contraction; narrowing

• 窄むすぼむ

  to get narrower; to contract

• 窄めるすぼめる

  to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)

• 屁をひって尻窄めへをひってしりつぼめ

  there is no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted; squeezing your buttocks after you have farted

• 幽門狭窄ゆうもんきょうさく

  pyloric stenosis

• 椎間孔狭窄ついかんこうきょうさく

  vertebral canal stenosis

• 異型大動脈縮窄症いけいだいどうみゃくしゅくさくしょう

  atypical coarctation of aorta

• 窄まるすぼまる

  to get narrower; to contract

• 窄むつぼむ

  to close (of flowers); to shut

• 肺動脈弁狭窄症はいどうみゃくべんきょうさくしょう

  pulmonary valve stenosis

• 脊柱管狭窄症せきちゅうかんきょうさくしょう

  spinal canal stenosis

• 血管狭窄けっかんきょうさく

  angiostenosis

• 視野狭窄しやきょうさく

  narrowing of visual field; narrow-mindedness; lack of vision

• 頸動脈狭窄症けいどうみゃくきょうさくしょう

  carotid stenosis; carotid artery stenosis

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