Meanings (ES + gloss)
angostura • constreñimiento • estrechez • estrechura • restricción
A rule restricting behaviour or action.
1931 Edgar Wallace: Again Sanders "That is a matter for you to discuss with the Government," said Sanders, in his iciest tone. "I am only authorized to collect twenty-eight thousan…
To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively decli…
estenosis
Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation.
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