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Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

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

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..

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

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

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

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

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

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

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..

Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..

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