straiten
Verb
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Verb
straiten (straitens, present participle straitening; 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.
To restrict or diminish, especially financially. - 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
- "And the reason why Birds are Oviparous and lay Eggs, but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much."
- Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
- Misspelling of straighten
- (narrow or confine to a smaller space) contract; See also Thesaurus:straiten
- (restrict or diminish) check, restrain; See also Thesaurus:curb
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