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Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

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..

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

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

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

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..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

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

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

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

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