Similar words: straighten, trait, portrait, shortened, frightened, strain, constrain, constraint. Meaning: ['streɪtn] 
adj. distressed or embarrassed (especially financially).
adj. distressed or embarrassed (especially financially). 31. The disabled form a special social group in straitened circumstances.
32. Still, on balance, the benefits probably outweigh the costs, particularly in straitened times.
33. For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
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