Hardship vs Straiten - What's the difference?
hardship | straiten |
(countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.
(senseid) To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
As a noun hardship
is (countable or uncountable) difficulty or trouble; hard times.As a verb straiten is
.hardship
English
Noun
(en noun)- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
straiten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.
- "And the reason why Birds'' are ''Oviparous'' and ''lay Eggs , but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much."
- Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.