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单词 straitening circumstances
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straitening circumstances
ˈstraitening adj.straitening circumstances (obsolete) = straitened circumstances.
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the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious
narroweOE
straitc1290
unwidea1400
scanta1533
angust1540
roomless1548
pinched?1567
niggard1595
strict1598
straitened1602
pinching1607
incommodious1615
incapacious1635
over-strait1645
straiteninga1652
cramp1786
bottleneck1854
cramped1884
tight1937
claustrophobic1946
claustrophobe1954
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [adjective]
strangling1606
straiteninga1652
fettery1654
cramp1786
cramping1788
astricting1837
strait-jacketing1950
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > producing or allowing decrease
reductive1633
straiteninga1652
diminishing1665
diminutive1677
remissive1686
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > of free action
strangling1606
straiteninga1652
fettery1654
cramp1786
cramping1788
astricting1837
strait-jacketing1950
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. viii. 432 Separating them from those circumstantiating and streightning conditions of Time and Place.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 70 Nor obvious Hill, Nor streit'ning Vale,..nor Stream divides Thir perfet ranks. View more context for this quotation
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 17 Providence..keeps them still in straitening circumstances.
1751 in J. J. Vernon Parish of Hawick (1900) 189 In case..his Widow should be reduced to straitning circumstances.
1788 D. Gilson Serm. Pract. Subj. xvii. 498 They ardently long to be removed to that state themselves, where the straitening ties of sense, or corporeal relation, shall cease to hamper or keep down the soul.
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