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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
straiten .
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Examples
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I hope he comes out of this one day and straitens up his act!
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*Reeches unner bed an gentlee pulls rhsb owt.* ** brushes orf teh dust bunnies an straitens her whiskers**
Babysitting… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I hope your situation straitens itself out as you explore the difficulties of protection online and what it means to not only the future of music, but the future of all media, as media as we know is shifting to digital instead of the world we know today.
In Which I Partially Eat My Hat (Crunch, Crunch) Sifry, Micah L. 2007
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The interior is washed and encompassed by the ocean; and this, through the circuitous winds of the interstices, now straitens into the narrows of a firth, now advances into ampler bays, forming a number of islands.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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S: Allah amplifies and straitens the means of subsistence for whom He pleases; and they rejoice in this world's life, and this world's life is nothing compared with the hereafter but a temporary enjoyment.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Ah! (know) that Allah amplifies and straitens the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants; had not Allah been gracious to us,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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S: And surely We know that your breast straitens at what they say;
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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S: Say: Surely my Lord amplifies the means of subsistence for whom He pleases and straitens (for whom He pleases), but most men do not know.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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S: Who is it that will offer of Allah a goodly gift, so He will multiply it to him manifold, and Allah straitens and amplifies, and you shall be returned to Him.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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S: Surely your Lord makes plentiful the means of subsistence for whom He pleases and He straitens (them); surely He is ever Aware of, Seeing,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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