| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 窄める | すぼめる, つぼめる | to make narrower, to shut (an umbrella), to shrug (one's shoulders), to purse (one's lips) |
| 窄む | すぼむ | to get narrower, to contract |
| 窄む | つぼむ | to close, to shut |
| 窄まる | すぼまる | to get narrower, to contract |
| 見窄らしい | みすぼらしい | shabby, seedy |
| 乳窄 | ちちしぼり | milking, milker |
| 屁をひって尻窄め | へをひってしりつぼめ | there's no point squeezing your buttocks after you have farted, no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted |
| 狭窄 | きょうさく | stricture, stenosis, contraction |
| 尻窄まり | しりすぼまり | attenuation, fizzling out |
| 幽門狭窄 | ゆうもんきょうさく | pyloric stenosis |