Definitions for "Straiten"
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.
Keywords:  tense, tight, tighten
To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
Keywords:  squeeze, together
squeeze together
Keywords:  confine, hence, narrow, contract
To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.