Straiten

1.

(TRANSITIVE) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

2.

(TRANSITIVE) To make tense, or tight; to tighten.

3.

(TRANSITIVE) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.