Straitened

Word STRAITENED
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Definitions and meanings of "Straitened"

What do we mean by straitened?

To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.

To restrict or diminish, especially financially.

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The word "straitened" in example sentences

The policy is defensible as the fairest approach to university finances in straitened times. ❋ Andrew Rawnsley (2010)

Ok, but be fair … Grant came into possession of ONE slave, and set him free, even though Grant was in straitened financial circumstances and could have done with the money. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, in straitened times, it is money that has had the final word. ❋ Barney Ronay (2010)

When straitened is my breast I will of my Creator pray, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Quoth Abú Hassán al-Ziyádi417: I was once in straitened case and so needy that the grocer, the baker and other tradesmen dunned and importuned me; and my misery became extreme, for I knew of no resource nor what to do. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When straitened is my breast I will of my Creator pray, viii. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Let me say by way of explanation that my younger sister and I grew up in straitened circumstances, that is, in a two-room flat and hence without rooms of our own or even so much as a corner to ourselves. ❋ Unknown (1999)

His mother had been left in straitened financial circumstances when my grandfather succumbed to pneumonia during the 1919 influenza epidemic. ❋ Unknown (1997)

He was kind to her, however, to the end, and when the first baby girl was born and the young pair seemed to be in straitened circumstances, he made them an allowance until the day of his daughter's death, which occurred three years after her elopement, on the birth of her second child. ❋ Unknown (1912)

I found her lonely and dejected; her husband had no post, and they were living in straitened circumstances. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Millard Fillmore, and now Andrew Johnson, have become Presidents, though beginning life in straitened circumstances; while Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, with similar biography, have been greater than ❋ Unknown (1865)

– when she finds I, too, have contributed to the distress and disturbance of my father – that on my account, too, his small income is again straitened, his few gratifications are diminished – O Lavinia! how has she strove to guard her poor tottering girl from evil! ❋ Unknown (1796)

26By 1740 Antoinetta found herself widowed again, but in straitened circumstances. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yea, straitened is my life by the bane and hate o’ foes ❋ Unknown (2006)

See the effect of it: The breadth of the waters is straitened, that is, the waters that had spread themselves, and flowed with liberty, are congealed, benumbed, arrested, bound up in crystal fetters. ❋ Unknown (1721)

But to blow away this dust, the sovereign power of a commonwealth is no more bounded, that is to say straitened, than that of a monarch; but is balanced. ❋ James Harrington (1644)

In his account of the harrowing trip, "Voyaging: Southward From the Strait of Magellan," the woodcuts lavishly distributed through the story conspire with his bravura prose to refresh the derivation of "straitened" circumstances and convey the "spirit-stirring glamour of the terrible." ❋ Geoffrey Wolff (2011)

How came "the Spirit of the Lord" to be thus "straitened," Mic.ii. 7, as to have but this one way of making known the word to us; and that such an one as he must be beholden to his creatures for it? ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

This caused his "straitened" feeling even in prosperity. ❋ Unknown (1871)

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