narrow down

narrow something down (to people or things)

to reduce a list of possibilities from many to a selected few. We can narrow the choice down to green or red. We narrowed down the choice to you or Paul.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Fazl	-	Arabic
Carr	[ka:]
Matryona	-	Russian
Auchinleck	['ɔ:kin'lek]
Patrick	PAT-rik (English), pat-REEK (French), PAHT-rik (German)	Irish, English, French, German
Elfreda	-	English