straiten
/ˈstreɪt(ə)n
/verb archaic
Make or become narrow: [with object]: the passage was straitened by tables...
- Even Isabella began straitening out her blue dress.
- He braces himself as if under attack then straitens up and watches the plane.
- Serge turns around to face his brothers, straitening his cape,
Rhymes
- take the gilt off the gingerbread
- take the King's (or Queen's) shilling
- take the King's shilling
- take the law into one's own hands
- take the liberty
- take the long view
- take the mound
- take the (or one's etc.) secret to the grave
- take the part of
- take the piss (out of someone/thing)
- take the place of
- take the plunge
- take the rap
- take the rough with the smooth
- take the salute
- take the shine off
- take the starch out of
- take the trouble
- take the veil
- take the wind out of someone's sails
- take the words out of someone's mouth
- take thought
- take time by the forelock
- take to
- take to one's bed