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91cramp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. restrict, hamper, handicap; compress, confine; fasten; cripple, paralyze, incapacitate. n. seizure, spasm, charley horse (inf.). See hindrance, impotence, pain, contraction. II (Roget s IV) n. 1.… …
92inhibit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. circumscribe, restrain; hamper, check, cramp; repress, suppress; forbid, prohibit. See restraint, prohibition. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. repress, frustrate, hold back; see hinder , restrain 1 . See… …
93narrow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. limited, restricted (see narrowness). II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking breadth] Syn. close, cramped, tight, confined, shrunken, compressed, slender, thin, fine, linear, threadlike, tapering,… …
94squeeze — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. press, compress; ex press, extract; stuff, cram; exact, extort, blackmail. See extraction, contraction. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Pressure] Syn. influence, restraint, force; see pressure 1 , 2 . 2.… …
95tighten — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To make tight] Syn. compress, condense, squeeze, bind, contract, strangle, constrict, crush, cramp, pinch, grip more tightly, clench, screw down, add pressure; see also stretch 2 . Ant. loosen*, relax, unloose. 2. [To become …
96Contraction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Contraction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 contraction contraction reduction diminution Sgm: N 1 decrease decrease &c. 36 of size Sgm: N 1 defalcation defalcation decrement Sgm: N 1 lessening …
97strain — English has two distinct words strain. The older, ‘line of ancestry’ [OE], denotes etymologically ‘something gained by accumulation’. It comes from the prehistoric base *streu ‘pile up’, which was related to Latin struere ‘build’ (source of… …
98strict — [16] Strict was acquired direct from strictus, the past participle of Latin stringere ‘pull tight, tighten’ (source also of English prestige, strain, and stringent). The original literal sense ‘tight’ survived into English (‘She wildly breaketh… …
99constrictive — c.1400, from L.L. constrictivus, from L. constrictus (see CONSTRICT (Cf. constrict)) …
100constrictor — 1735, agent noun in Latin form from CONSTRICT (Cf. constrict) …
