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Straiten [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make narrow.

2. In narrow circuit, straitend by a foe.

3. To contract; to confine; as, to straiten the British commerce.

4. To make tense or tight; as, to straiten a cord.

5. To distress; to perplex; to press with poverty or other necessity; as, a man straitened in his circumstances.

6. To press by want of sufficient room.

7. Waters when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise.

Straiten [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.

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.

Straitened [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Straitening [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Job 12:23

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

Job 37:10

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

Proverbs 4:12

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

Ezekiel 42:6

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.

For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

Micah 2:7

O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

Luke 12:50

But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

2 Corinthians 6:12

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

Susanna 1:22

Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands.