to straiten

Examples

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• His father, a railroad worker, was killed in an accident when Mitchum was two years old, and thereafter his family lived in straitened circumstances.

  Academic text (2010)

• Thus, even before the Iraqi invasion, Assad was making changes here and there, adapting to his straitened circumstances, while leaving fundamentals as much intact as possible.

  Academic text (1991)

• At the very least, such women should not be pushed into straitened circumstances by divorce.

  Academic text (1996)

• For better or for worse, for some administrators, that's their main metric, especially in times of straitened finances.

  Academic text (2011)

• Despite these straitened circumstances, a few systematists have been able to continue to work, albeit at a snail's pace, on the taxonomy of their favorite organisms.

  Academic text (1996)

• The wide array of literature available could almost be seen to mitigate its effectiveness: a parish pastor with limited theological training, a host of daily responsibilities, and in straitened financial circumstances had neither the intellectual background, the time, nor the money to select, buy, and read all the works that might assist him in carrying out his pastoral duties.

  Academic text (2004)

• After a week of gentle, noncommittal responses from the Mother Superior, Scarlett was so desperate that she even began to accompany her aunts when they paid calls on friends of theirs who were also elderly Catholic ladies in straitened circumstances.

  Fiction book (1991)

• With respect to assessing one's position in society, while whites at midlife are at the pinnacle of their careers and incomes, today's midlife blacks are in straitened circumstances.

  Academic text (1991)

• The simple Creole cottage shared by Aurore and her daughter bears witness to her poverty—but also her good taste and ingenuity at masking her very straitened circumstances.

  Blog text (21)

• The sudden loss of his job put him in a straiten situation, struggling to pay his bills.

Synonyms

D

to distress

vsto straiten

32 4.1

Cause someone to feel pain, worry or serious problems

focuses on causing financial trouble or lack of money

Antonyms

P

to prosper

88 3.7

To become successful or grow well, often by making money

How Poor

to bankrupt

57 4.1

to straiten

• Archaic

1 9.8

to impoverish

14 6.7

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Etymology