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straited

straited is the simple past and past participle of strait.

Meaning of strait

Verb

strait (third-person singular simple present straits, present participle straiting, simple past and past participle straited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
    • After Bardus, the Celtes […] were in short tyme, and with small labour broughte vnder the subiection of the Giaunt Albion, the sonne of Neptune, who altering the state of things here in this yland, straited the name of Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia […]1577, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Chronicles, volume 1, London: The Historie of Englande, page 3
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.

See all 14 meanings of strait

Questions about straited

What is straited the simple past and past participle of?
Straited is the simple past and past participle of strait.

Words near straited in the dictionary

  1. strait-jacket
  2. strait-jackets
  3. strait-laced
  4. strait-waistcoat
  5. strait-waistcoats
  6. straited
  7. straiten
  8. straitened
  9. straitened circumstances
  10. straitened times
  11. straitening

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