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a narrow body of water between two land masses<as the ship headed east through the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain was on our left and Africa on our right>— see channel 2
2
often straits plural
a state of great suffering of body or mind<in great straits over the loss of her motherʼs cherished necklace>— see distress 1
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