string-, strict-, strain-, -stringence, -stringency, -stringe, -stringent

1. To compress, to make narrower.
2. To cause to contract.
3. To make smaller or more narrow; especially, by binding or squeezing.
4. To squeeze or to compress.
5. To restrict the scope or freedom of; to cramp: "Many lives are constricted by poverty and illness."

1. Tightness, a constricted part; a feeling of pressure.
2. Something that constricts or the process of becoming narrower, or of making something more narrow.
3. Anything that severely restricts someone's freedom of movement, action, or expression.

Tending to constrict or restricting the scope or freedom of action.

1. A muscle which narrows an orifice or constricts an organ, or a muscle that tightens to make a part of the body narrower.
2. A snake which kills its prey by squeezing or constriction; such as, a python, boa constrictor, etc.
3. Someone or something that constricts somebody or something else.

A condition that causes something to contract, or to constrict.

Having the quality of contracting, binding or compressing.

1. To seize someone's movable property either in lieu of payment of a debt or in order to force the person to pay.
2. To seize and hold (property) to compel payment or reparation, as of debts.

The forcing or compelling to satisfy an obligation by means of a distress.

The act of distraining; a distress.

1. A mental suffering; such as, that caused by grief, anxiety, or unhappiness.
2. Hardship or problems caused by a lack of basic necessities.
3. Physical pain or discomfort.
4. Great danger or difficulty, with a need for immediate assistance.
5. The seizing of someone's movable property either in lieu of payment of a debt or in order to force the person to pay. 6. To make someone extremely upset, anxious, or alarmed.
7. Etymology: from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere, "to draw apart, to hinder"; also, in Medieval Latin (Latin as written and spoken c.700-c.1500), "to compel, to coerce"; from dis-, "apart" + stringere, "to draw tight, to press together".

1. Causing distress, or experiencing worry or anxiety.
2. Causing or involving distress: "There are extensive distressful circumstances of poverty and sickness in this family."
3. Full of, feeling, or indicating distress; such as, a distressful cry.

With distress.

1. Causing distress, or worry and anxiety.
2. Giving severe pain; oppressing with affliction.
2. Very afflicting; affecting with severe pain; as a distressing sickness.

1. Unpleasantly severe strain resulting from exhaustion or an accident.
2. A reference to an acute physical discomfort.
3. Characterized by a condition of being in need of immediate assistance.

1. An area of a town or country, especially one with a distinguishing feature or one that is an administrative division.
2. A portion of territory specially set off or defined; such as, for judicial, political, educational, or other purposes.
3. One of the territorial areas into which an entire state or country, county, municipality, or other political subdivision is divided; for judicial, political, electoral, or administrative purposes.

Properly, a limited extent of a country; a circuit within which power, right, or authority may be exercised, and to which it is restrained.

A word applicable to any portion of land or country, or to any part of a city or town, which is defined by law or agreement. A governor, a prefect, or a judge may have his district.

Some of the states are divided into districts for the choice of senators, representatives, or electors. Cities and towns are divided into districts for various purposes; such as, for schools, revenue collections, etc.