to get narrower;  to contract
 to make narrower;  to shut (an umbrella);  to shrug (one's shoulders);  to purse (one's lips)
 narrowing of visual field;  narrow-mindedness;  lack of vision
 contraction;  narrowing;  stricture;  stenosis
 to get narrower;  to contract
 weak ending;  tapering;  anticlimax;  tame ending
 attenuating;  fizzling out
 to close (of flowers);  to shut;  to get narrower
 carotid stenosis;  carotid artery stenosis
 milking;  milker;  milkmaid
 carotid stenosis;  carotid artery stenosis
 there is no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted; (lit.) squeezing your buttocks after you have farted
 atypical coarctation of aorta