Narrowness. Thinness
Nouns
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narrowness etc. adj.
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closeness, exility
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exiguity etc. (little) Littleness. line
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hair's breadth, finger's breadth
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strip, streak, vein. monolayer
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epitaxial deposition [Eng.]. thinness etc. adj.
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tenuity
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emaciation, macilency, marcor. shaving, slip etc. (filament) Filament
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thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone. middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass
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ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass
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ravine etc. Interval. narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering
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contraction etc. Contraction.
Verbs
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be narrow etc. adj.
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narrow, taper, contract etc. Contraction
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render narrow etc. adj.
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waste away.
Adjectives
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narrow, close
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slender, thin, fine
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thread-like etc. (filament) Filament
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finespun, gossamer
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paper-thin
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taper, slim, slight-made
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scant, scanty
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spare, delicate, incapacious
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contracted etc. Contraction
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unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. Expansion
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slender as a thread. [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent
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lank, lanky
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weedy, skinny
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scrawny slinky [U.S.]
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starved, starveling
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herring gutted
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worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]
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thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer
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hatchet-faced
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lantern-jawed. attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned. monomolecular.