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Straiten

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Verb (used with object)

to put into difficulties, esp. financial ones
His obligations had straitened him.
to restrict in range, extent, amount, pecuniary means, etc
Poverty straitens one's way of living.
Archaic .
to make narrow.
to confine within narrow limits.

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