Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to strait
Participle: straited
Gerund: straiting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | strait |
| you | strait |
| he;she;it | straits |
| we | strait |
| you | strait |
| they | strait |
Perfect
| I | have straited |
| you | have straited |
| he;she;it | has straited |
| we | have straited |
| you | have straited |
| they | have straited |
Past
| I | straited |
| you | straited |
| he;she;it | straited |
| we | straited |
| you | straited |
| they | straited |
Pluperfect
| I | had straited |
| you | had straited |
| he;she;it | had straited |
| we | had straited |
| you | had straited |
| they | had straited |
Future
| I | will strait |
| you | will strait |
| he;she;it | will strait |
| we | will strait |
| you | will strait |
| they | will strait |
Future Perfect
| I | will have straited |
| you | will have straited |
| he;she;it | will have straited |
| we | will have straited |
| you | will have straited |
| they | will have straited |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | strait |
| you | strait |
| he;she;it | strait |
| we | strait |
| you | strait |
| they | strait |
Perfect
| I | have straited |
| you | have straited |
| he;she;it | have straited |
| we | have straited |
| you | have straited |
| they | have straited |
Imperfect
| I | straited |
| you | straited |
| he;she;it | straited |
| we | straited |
| you | straited |
| they | straited |
Pluperfect
| I | had straited |
| you | had straited |
| he;she;it | had straited |
| we | had straited |
| you | had straited |
| they | had straited |
Conditional
Present
| I | would strait |
| you | would strait |
| he;she;it | would strait |
| we | would strait |
| you | would strait |
| they | would strait |
Perfect
| I | would have straited |
| you | would have straited |
| he;she;it | would have straited |
| we | would have straited |
| you | would have straited |
| they | would have straited |
Imperative
| you | strait |
| we | Let's strait |
| you | strait |
Verbs conjugated like 'strait'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'strait'
strain,
scrat,
sprain,
sprit,
stain,
start,
stat,
strafe,
straight,
straiten,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.
Sample Sentences
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After Bardus, the Celtes […] were in short tyme, and with small labour broughte vnder the subiection of the Giaunt Albion, the sonne of Neptune, who altering the state of things here in this yland, straited the name of Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia […] [1577, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Chronicles, volume 1, London: The Historie of Englande, page 3:]
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[…] If your lass
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Interpretation should abuse and call this
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Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited
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For a reply […] [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:]
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The King, Duke of York, Prince Rupert and Maurice are still at Oxford closely surrounded by the Parliaments Forces, and the other not well resolving what course to take, all their Horse being about Faringdon, in expectation of the Lord Ashley with his Foot to joyn in a Body, if they be not prevented by Colonel Fleetwood and Rainsborough, straiting and allarming Oxford very often […] [1658, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, London: Humphrey Moseley, et al, page 885:]