straiten
英['stre?t(?)n]
美
- vt. 限制；使…窮困；使…為難
- vi. 變窄；變緊
英文詞源
- straiten (v.)
- 1520s (transitive) "to restrict, make narrow," from strait (adj.) + -en (1). Related: straitened; straitening. Earlier verb was simply strait "to make narrow" (early 15c.).
