straitening
Meaning of straitening
verb
- 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.
- 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
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