narrow down

narrow down
phrasal verb [transitive]
Word forms "narrow down":
present tense I/you/we/they narrow down he/she/it narrows down present participle narrowing down past tense narrowed down past participle narrowed down
to reduce the number of possibilities or choices

We're working to narrow down the list of possible suspects.

narrow something down to something:

That narrowed it down to just two possibilities.


English dictionary. 2014.

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