Crossword-Solution: STRAITEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Straiten | v. t. | To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine. |
| Straiten | v. t. | To make tense, or tight; to tighten. |
| Straiten | v. t. | To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STRAITEN | anagram | INSTATER, INTATERS, NITRATES, RESITANT, TRAINSET |
We have 16 clues for the answer “STRAITEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Add financial difficulties to | 1 answer |
| Create financial trouble for | 1 answer |
| Put into a bind, financially | 1 answer |
| Put into difficulties | 1 answer |
| Put into financial difficulties | 1 answer |
| Restrict as to finances. | 1 answer |
| Restrict in range | 1 answer |
| Restrict, in a way | 2 answers |
| make narrow | 2 answers |
| BESET WITH DIFFICULTIES | 10 answers |
| AGAINST DIFFICULTIES | 10 answers |
| BRING INTO DIFFICULTIES OR DISTRESS, ESPECIALLY FINANCIAL HARDSHIP | 10 answers |
| Hem in | 13 answers |
| Confine | 58 answers |
| Hamper | 62 answers |
| CONTRACT ___ | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMCAE
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eruption
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Sentences with STRAITEN (5)
Harden, at the same time, with a body of mounted militia, had it in charge to straiten the enemy upon the Edisto.
And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Keith, with 30,000, he has left on the Weissenberg, to straiten Prag and the Austrian Garrison on that side: our wagon-trains arrive from Leitmeritz on that side, Elbe-boats bring them up to Leitmeritz; very indispensable to guard that side of Prag.
Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy power to cut off, as wholly depending from mere conceit and opinion; and then thou shalt have room enough.
Shouldst thou hear a man say, I am resolved to be kind to the poor, and should begin with giving handfuls of guineas, you would conclude, that either he is wonderful rich, or must straiten his hand, or will soon be at the bottom of his riches.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1959–2011).