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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

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

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

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

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

Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

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..

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

Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.

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