n verb (used with object)
1.
to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
2.
to restrict in range, extent, amount, pecuniary means, etc: Poverty straitens one's way of living.
3.
Archaic.
a.
to make narrow.
b.
to confine within narrow limits.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr; usually passive) to embarrass or distress, esp financially |
| 2. | (tr) to limit, confine, or restrict |
| 3. | archaic to make or become narrow |
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