<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) To put into difficulties, especially financial ones: "His obligations had straitened him."</li><li>To restrict in range, extent, amount, pecuniary means, etc.: "Poverty straitens one's way of living."</li><li>(Archaic) To make narrow.</li><li>To confine within narrow limits.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Characterized by deviation or departure from an accepted norm or standard, as of behavior.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A person or thing that departs from the accepted norm or standard.</li><li>A person whose sexual behavior departs from the norm in a way that is considered socially or morally unacceptable.</li><li>(Statistics) A variable equal to the difference between a variate and some fixed value, often the mean.</li></ul>