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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Straiten \Strait"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Straitened}; p. pr &
vb n. {Straitening}.]
1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence to contract; to
confine.
Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges,
give a roaring noise. --Bacon.
In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. --Milton.
2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
They straiten at each end the cord. --Pope.
3. 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.
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Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
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