straitened

straitened
adj
1. poor, destitute, poverty-stricken, impoverished, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized, penniless, indigent, needy, necessitous, bad off, badly off; pinched, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it, Inf. on one's uppers, Inf. hard up; financially embarrassed, out of cash, out-of-pocket, Inf. short, Brit. Sl. skint, All Inf. broke, dead broke, flat broke, stone broke; bankrupt, ruined, wiped out, Inf. on the rocks, insolvent, overdrawn, in the red.
2. distressed, Inf. at the end of one's rope, Inf. between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis, in a sea of difficulties or troubles; in a precarious situation, in jeopardy, Inf. out on a limb, Inf. up a creek, Inf. up a creek without a paddle; encumbered, overburdened, overloaded; taxed, overtaxed, strained, close to breakdown; afflicted, perturbed, disturbed, troubled, worried, bothered, harried, vexed, perplexed.

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