narrow down

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Verb

narrow down (third-person singular simple present narrows down, present participle narrowing down, simple past and past participle narrowed down)

(idiomatic) To make more specific.
All the food on the menu looked delicious, so I tried to narrow down my choices to only healthy foods.

After consulting with witnesses, the police narrowed down the suspects to those who had facial hair.

Translations

to make more specific

Bulgarian: свеждам до (sveždam do)
German: einengen (de), eingrenzen (de), einschränken (de), zuspitzen (de)
Latin: angustō
Turkish: daraltmak (tr)

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