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
- the Big Three (or Four etc.)
- the bird has flown
- the birds and the bees
- the biter bitten (or bit)
- the Blessed Sacrament
- the Blitz
- the bloom is off the rose
- the Boat Race
- the body beautiful
- the Book of Psalms
- the Books of the Maccabees
- the boot (or shoe) is on the other foot
- the Border
- the Borders
- the bottom falls (or drops) out
- the Bourse
- the boy (or girl) next door
- the brass ring
- the bread of life
- the breath of life
- the buck stops here (or with someone)
- the Burse
- theca
- theca folliculi
- the Cairngorms