Straitened
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Straiten \Strait"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Straitened}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Straitening}.]
1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to
confine.
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Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges,
give a roaring noise. --Bacon.
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In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. --Milton.
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2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
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They straiten at each end the cord. --Pope.
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3. 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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "straitened":
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, badly off, bound,
bounded, conditioned, confined, copyrighted, cramped, desperate,
destitute, disciplined, distressed, down to bedrock, dwarfed,
dwarfish, embarrassed, exiguous, feeling the pinch, finite, frugal,
hard pressed, hard up, ill off, impecunious, impoverished,
in Queer Street, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities,
in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances,
in straitened circumstances, inadequate, indigent, insolvent,
insufficient, jejune, land-poor, lean, limited, meager, mean,
miserly, moderated, narrow, necessitous, needy, niggardly,
on the edge, oppressed, out of pocket, paltry, parsimonious,
patented, penniless, pinched, poor, poorly off, poverty-stricken,
prescribed, proscribed, puny, qualified, reduced, restricted,
scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, short, short of cash,
short of funds, short of money, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight,
slim, small, sorely pressed, spare, sparing, squeezed, starvation,
stingy, stinted, strait, strapped, stunted, subsistence, thin,
unmoneyed, unnourishing, unnutritious, unprosperous, up against it,
watered, watery
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