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Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

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

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Channel :: Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

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..

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

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

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

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