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straiten

verb

Definitions

  1. To make strait

    To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.

    • The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.

  2. To restrict or diminish, especially financially.

    • Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.

  3. Misspelling of straighten.

The neighborhood

Derived

enstraiten

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA