straiten

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straiten

verb straitens · straitening · straitened · streighten

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.
Similar: contract
To restrict or diminish, especially financially. And the reason why Birds are Oviparous and lay Eggs, but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much.
Similar: check
misspelling Misspelling of straighten

Similar: restrain, narrow, straiten · Opposite: widen

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verb

Similar: restrain, narrow, straiten · Opposite: widen

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@misc{straiten_2026,
  title = {straiten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/straiten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}