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

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

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

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

Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

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

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

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Sound :: Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound..

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

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

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

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

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