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verb
- 1. make or become narrow: archaic "the passage was straitened by tables"
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The meaning of STRAITEN is to make strait or narrow. How to use straiten in a sentence.
To straiten is to restrict financially, the way having your rent increase can straiten your circumstances if your salary stays the same. The verb straiten is an old-fashioned one, but it's one way to describe a situation that's been diminished or constrained, usually because of money problems.
Straiten definition: to put into difficulties, especially financial ones. See examples of STRAITEN used in a sentence.
a. to make strait or narrow. b. to hem in closely. c. to restrict or confine in scope, range, etc.; hamper. 2. to bring into difficulties; cause to be in distress or want. usually in the phrase in straitened circumstances, lacking sufficient money.
Define straiten. straiten synonyms, straiten pronunciation, straiten translation, English dictionary definition of straiten. tr.v. strait·ened , strait·en·ing , strait·ens 1. To put or bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship.
Nov 24, 2019 · straiten (third-person singular simple present straitens, present participle straitening, simple past and past participle straitened) 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.
Definitions of 'straiten' 1. Rare. a. to make strait or narrow. [...] b. to hem in closely. [...] c. to restrict or confine in scope, range, etc.; hamper. [...] 2. to bring into difficulties; cause to be in distress or want. usually in the phrase in straitened circumstances, lacking sufficient money [...] More. Conjugations of 'straiten'
Straiten definition: To put or bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship.
strait•en (strāt′ n), v.t. to put into difficulties, esp. financial ones: His obligations had straitened him. to restrict in range, extent, amount, pecuniary means, etc: Poverty straitens one's way of living. [ Archaic.]
formal uk / ˈstreɪ.t ə nd / us / ˈstreɪ.t ə nd / Add to word list. A straitened situation is difficult because there is much less money available to you than there was in the past: A lot of people are finding themselves in very straitened circumstances because of the recession.
