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Angust :: Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

Straight :: Straight (a.) A variant of Strait, a..

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

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