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Verb: straiten  strey-t(u)n
  1. Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
    - distress
     
  2. Squeeze together

Sounds like: stra

Derived forms: straitened, straitens, straitening

Type of: bother, confine, detain, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble

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strait
strait and narrow
Strait of Calais
Strait of Dover
Strait of Georgia
Strait of Gibraltar
Strait of Hormuz
Strait of Magellan
Strait of Messina
Strait of Ormuz
straiten
straitjacket
straitlaced
strait-laced
straits
Straits of Dover
Straits of Gibraltar
strake
stramash
stramonium
Strand