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English

Verb

straitened

Adjective

squeezed or confined

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet straitened
adj : distressed or embarrassed (especially financially)

Moby Dictionary
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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