Definition of strait

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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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Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..
Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.
Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.
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..
Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..
Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.
Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..
Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.
Impaction :: Impaction (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast..
Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.
Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..
Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..
Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.
Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..
Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.
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