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Straiten

verb
(past & past part. straitened; pres. part. straitening)
1.
Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship.  Synonym: distress.
2.
Squeeze together.





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"Straiten" Quotes from Famous Books



... both with relation to each other and to the several parts within themselves. But if the confiscation should so far succeed as to sink the paper currency, the cement is gone with the circulation. In the mean time its binding force will be very uncertain, and it will straiten or relax with every variation in ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke


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