STRAITEN
straiten
Verb
- 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.
- Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.
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