transitive verb. To put or bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To make narrow.

transitive verb. To enclose in a limited area; confine.

transitive verb. To restrict in latitude or scope.

To make strait or narrow; narrow; contract; diminish.

To confine; hem in.

To draw tight; tighten.

To hamper; inconvenience; restrict.

To press hard, as with want or difficulties of any kind; distress; afflict with pecuniary difficulties: as, to be straitened in money matters.

transitive verb. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

transitive verb. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.

transitive verb. To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.

verb. Common misspelling of straighten.

verb. To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.

verb. To restrict or diminish, especially financially.

verb. squeeze together

verb. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

"Religious vision and religious imagination do not straiten but enrich political and ethical discourse, and the religions, precisely because they deal with the ultimate destiny of every man and woman, are called to be a prophetic force for human liberation and development throughout the world, particularly in areas torn by hostility and conflict."

bother  confine  detain  discommode  disoblige  

arrest  bottle up  bound  box in  box up  

straitened  straitening  straitens