Phrasal Verbs

narrow down

This page is about the phrasal verb narrow down

Meaning

to reduce the number of possibilities, options or choices

Synonym

reduce

For example

  • narrow down sth I was buying a new car and there were many models to choose from, but I wanted a fuel-efficient car so that narrowed down the range quite a bit.

  • narrow sth down to sth Thirty people applied for the job, but after the first round of interviews we'd narrowed it down to just three.

Nouns often used as objects with narrow down: range, field, number, total

Quick Quiz

We had ten good designs, but we needed to narrow it down to just three, so we had to

a. reject the best ones

b. choose the best ones

c. produce the best ones
a) reject the best ones b) choose the best ones c) produce the best ones

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