Straiten: alternatives and connections

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To keep back or from; to withhold.

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To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

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To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

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The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of t…

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.