Verb: straiten strey-t(u)n
- Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
"The economic downturn straitened many families";
- distress
- Squeeze together
"The crowd straitened as they tried to fit through the narrow doorway"
Sounds like: stra
Derived forms: straitened, straitening, straitens
Type of: bother, confine, detain, discommode [archaic], disoblige, incommode [archaic], inconvenience, put out, trouble