straiten
IPA: strˈeɪtʌn
verb
- To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.
- To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
- Misspelling of straighten. [(transitive) To cause to become straight.]
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Examples of "straiten" in Sentences
- It would really help straiten things out.
- I completely agrre with you about the itd time to straiten up.
- Akiba, with his young wife, lived perforce in the most straitened circumstances.
- Maybe someone should go after the folks who set up the rules for the Bassmaster Classic and get them to straiten it out.
- Religious vision and religious imagination do not straiten but enrich political and ethical discourse, and the religions, precisely because they deal with the ultimate destiny of every man and woman, are called to be a prophetic force for human liberation and development throughout the world, particularly in areas torn by hostility and conflict.