- strait|ened
- strait|ened «STRAY tuhnd», adjective.1. limited or reduced, especially to insufficiency: »
straitened means or income.
2. needing money badly; hampered by insufficiency of means: »The day before payday found him in straitened circumstances.
3. Archaic. narrowed or contracted; narrowly confined.4. Obsolete. drawn tight.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.