straiten
/ˈstreɪt(ə)n
/verb archaic
Make or become narrow: [with object]: the passage was straitened by tables...
- Even Isabella began straitening out her blue dress.
- He braces himself as if under attack then straitens up and watches the plane.
- Serge turns around to face his brothers, straitening his cape,
Rhymes
- bestselling
- be stuck (or caught) in a time warp
- best wisher
- best wishes
- besuited
- be sure
- bet
- beta
- beta-adrenergic
- beta-amyloid
- beta blocker
- Betacam
- beta cell
- beta cellulose
- beta coefficient
- beta customer
- beta decay
- beta endorphin
- beta-hydroxy acid
- betaine
- betake
- be taken ill
- Betamax
- beta particle
- beta ray