English Dictionary

straiten

動詞

別表記 誤綴り

To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space. / To restrict or diminish, especially financially. / Misspelling of straighten.

日本語の意味

狭くする；空間や範囲をより小さい状態にする / 制限する；特に財政面において制約や縮小を行う / 'straighten'（まっすぐにする）のスペル置き換えの誤り

To improve navigation, the crew decided to straiten the river's winding channel.

航行を改善するため、乗組員は川の曲がりくねった流路を狭めることに決めた。

意味（1）

To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.

The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.

意味（2）

To restrict or diminish, especially financially.

And the reason why Birds are Oviparous and lay Eggs, but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much.

意味（3）

Misspelling of straighten.

straitens （ present singular third-person ）

straitening （ participle present ）

straitened （ participle past ）

straitened （ past ）