straitening

Meaning of straitening

verb
  1. 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.
  2. To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
    Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.

Information about straitening

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of straitening

strait-en-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • straitening is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

straitening synonyms

Meaning :

contract, check, restrain

Anagrams of straitening

intrigantes, reinstating

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