O que (quem) é Straiten - definição
straiten
v. a.
1.
Confine, limit, constrict, contract, constrain.
2.
Narrow.
3.
Stretch, straighten, make tight or tense.
4.
Distress, perplex, pinch, embarrass, press.
Straiten
·vt To make tense, or tight; to Tighten.
II. Straiten ·vt To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to Confine.
III. Straiten ·vt 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.
straiten
¦ verb
1. [as adjective straitened] restricted in range.
restricted because of poverty: they lived in straitened circumstances.
2. archaic make or become narrow.
