Straiten
STRAITEN, verb transitive
1. To make narrow.
In narrow circuit, straitend by a foe.
2. To contract; to confine; as, to straiten the British commerce.
3. To make tense or tight; as, to straiten a cord.
4. To distress; to perplex; to press with poverty or other necessity; as, a man straitened in his circumstances.
5. To press by want of sufficient room.
Waters when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV):
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. Jeremiah 19:9
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