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Straitens
- verb - bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
- squeeze together
Strangers
- noun - an individual that one is not acquainted with
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Strangles
- verb - an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- die from strangulation
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
- prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
Strapados
- noun - a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope
Strapless
- adjective - a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps
- having no straps; "a strapless evening gown"
Strappers
- noun - a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
Strategus
- - The leader or commander of an army; a general.
Streakers
- noun - someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place
Streamers
- noun - a long flag; often tapering
- a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
- light that streams; "streamers of flames"
- long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
Strengths
- noun - an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war; "we faced an army of great strength";
- capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; "the strength of the drinks"
- permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products"
- physical energy or intensity;
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); "they measured the station's signal strength"
- the condition of financial success; "the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks"
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty; "the strength of his argument settled the matter"
- the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength"