NichiDict

すぼめる

窄める
[subomeru]

Meanings

1.IchidanTransitive

to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)

Examples

寒さに肩を窄めて歩いた。

I walked hunching my shoulders against the cold.

彼女はそんなに肩を窄める必要はない。

She doesn't need to hunch her shoulders like that.

批判されると彼はいつも肩を窄めている

Whenever he's criticized, he always hunches his shoulders.