stricture
(noun)
noun
1. abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
Similar word(s): stenosis
Definition categories: state, pathology
2. severe criticism
Definition categories: communication, criticism
Sentences with stricture as a noun:
- For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.