Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of strait is as below...

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

Strait-laced :: Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back..

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

Impaction :: Impaction (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast..

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

Random Fonts

Most Popular