meaning of straited
1. A variant of Straight.
2. Narrow; not broad.
3. Tight; close; closely fitting.
4. Close; intimate; near; familiar.
5. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
6. Difficult; distressful; straited.
7. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
8. Strictly; rigorously.
9. A narrow pass or passage.
10. A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
11. A neck of land; an isthmus.
12. Fig. : A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
13. To put to difficulties.
14. a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
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