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Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

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 (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

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

Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..

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

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

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

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

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

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.

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