straiten
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb 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.
- verb To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.
- verb Misspelling of straighten.
Similar words
enstraiten streighten narrow stricten constrict retrench scrimp unnarrow shrink narrow down
Often followed by
the him his and thee them or it their
Word family
straitened straitening straitens
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