straiten
中文解釋
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Verb
straitens, 3rd person singular present; straitened, past participle; straitening, present participle; straitened, past tense;
/ˈstrātn/,
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straitens, 3rd person singular present; straitened, past participle; straitening, present participle; straitened, past tense;
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Make or become narrow
- - the passage was straitened by tables
Web Definitions:
- bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
- squeeze together
- Common misspelling of straighten; To squeeze something together to make it narrow, or to confine it in a smaller space; To restrict, especially financially
- (straitened) squeezed or confined
- (straitened) Closed in, restricted, forced into difficulty.
- Limit, narrow, confine or reduce to the point of creating difficulty or distress.