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v. Present participle of straiten.

"When my mother is out of breath and rests herself in an elbow – chair, I watch her winding her bright curls round her fingers, and straitening her waist, and nobody knows better than I do that she likes to look so well, and is proud of being so pretty."

straitened    straitening    straitens   

detain    confine    incommode    trouble    discommode   

tighten    restrict