2. Adjective. squeezed or confined ¹
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Definition of Straitened
1. straiten [v] - See also: straiten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straitened
Literary usage of Straitened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical: Adapted by Joseph Lathrop (1810)
"And he expostulates with them, " Is God's spirit straitened ?" Is his hand
shortened that it cannot save you ? " Are these'4 calamities " his doings ? ..."
2. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"... been straitened at times for want of means. Especially he seemed to be interested
in our young couple who were soon to be united. ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1839)
"which places he could not be straitened in room, or provisions, or be compelled
to fight in a place disadvantageous, or when he had no mind to it; ..."
4. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1898)
"he resigned his commission, on account of the straitened pecuniary circumstances
of his family, which had arisen by reason of his long absence in the field. ..."
5. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1880)
"... and the more and more siege-like measures which straitened followed, there
had come upon the Allies before Inker- man a change of conditions so harsh ..."
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