Definizione monolingua

straiten

straiten (third-person singular simple present straitens, present participle straitening, simple past and past participle straitened)

1. Common misspelling of straighten.
2. 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.

3. To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:

     ""And the reason why Birds are Oviparous and lay Eggs, but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much.""

   Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.

Definizione dizionario straiten

limitare

restringere

Altri significati:

Common misspelling of straighten.

To restrict, especially financially.

To squeeze something together to make it narrow, or to confine it in a smaller space