Defenition of the word strait
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Defenition of the word strait
- A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- (archaic) strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
- narrow
Synonyms for the word strait
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- canal
- channel
- pass
- passage
- sound
- straits
Similar words in the strait
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- narrow
- strait
- strait's
- straited
- straiten
- straitened
- straitening
- straitens
- straiting
- straitjacket
- straitjacket's
- straitjacketed
- straitjacketing
- straitjackets
- straits
Hyponyms for the word strait
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- Bering Strait
- Bosporus
- Cook Strait
- Dardanelles
- desperate straits
- dire straits
- East River
- Golden Gate
- Hellespont
- Kattegatt
- Korea Strait
- Korean Strait
- Menai Strait
- narrow
- North Channel
- Pas de Calais
- Skagerak
- Skagerrak
- Solent
- Strait of Calais
- Strait of Dover
- Strait of Georgia
- Strait of Gibraltar
- Strait of Hormuz
- Strait of Magellan
- Strait of Messina
- Strait of Ormuz
- the Solent
- Torres Strait
Hypernyms for the word strait
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- channel
- situation
- sound
- state of affairs
- surname
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