STRAITENED

adj. 25B6; adjective IMPOVERISHED, poverty-stricken, poor, destitute, penniless, on one's beam-ends, as poor as a church mouse, in penury, impecunious, unable to make ends meet, in reduced circumstances; Brit. on the breadline; informal (flat) broke, strapped for cash, on one's uppers; Brit. informal stony broke, skint, in Queer Street; N. Amer. informal stone broke; formal penurious.