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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abbreviation, adverse criticism, anathema, animadversion, arraignment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, aspersion, astriction, astringency, bad notices, bad press, blame, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, captiousness, carping, castigation, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cervix, check, circumscription, clogging, closing up, closure, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condemnation, condensation, consolidation, constraint, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, cramp, criticism, curtailment, damnation, decrease, decrial, delay, denouncement, denunciation, detainment, detention, deterrent, diminuendo, exception, excoriation, faultfinding, fixation, flak, flaying, foot-dragging, fulmination, fustigation, hairsplitting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, hit, holdback, holdup, home thrust, hostile criticism, hourglass, hourglass figure, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impeachment, impediment, imputation, indictment, inhibition, interdiction, interference, interruption, isthmus, knitting, knock, let, nagging, narrow place, narrowing, neck, negativism, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nuisance value, obloquy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying, priggishness, puckering, pursing, quibble, quibbling, rap, reduction, reflection, reprehension, repression, reproachfulness, reprobation, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, setback, shortening, skinning alive, slam, solidification, squeeze, stranglehold, stranglement, strangulation, striction, suppression, swipe, systole, taking exception, taper, tapering, trichoschistism, wasp waist, wrinkling
Dictionary Results for stricture:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
stricture
    n 1: abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway [syn:
         stenosis, stricture]
    2: severe criticism
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stricture \Stric"ture\, n. [L. strictura a contraction, from
   stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See
   Strict.]
   1. Strictness. [Obs.]
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            A man of stricture and firm abstinence. --Shak.
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   2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
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   3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
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            [I have] given myself the liberty of these
            strictures by way of reflection on all and every
            passage.                              --Hammond.
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   4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of
      the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic
      stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. --Arbuthnot.
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