| STR | the strait separating Sicily from the tip of Italy |
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| STR | a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman |
| STR | squeeze together |
| STR | distressed or embarrassed (especially financially) |
| STR | a jacket-like garment used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person |
| STR | exaggeratedly proper |
| STR | a difficult juncture |
| STR | a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs |
| STR | thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship |
| STR | a necklace made by a stringing objects together |
| STR | line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable |
| STR | a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole |