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plural of strait
Synonyms & Antonyms of straits
a state of great suffering of body or mind
- in great straits over the loss of her mother's cherished necklace
Synonyms for straits
- affliction,
- agony,
- anguish,
- distress,
- excruciation,
- hurt,
- misery,
- pain,
- rack,
- torment,
- torture,
- travail,
- tribulation,
- woe
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