stricture
/ˈstrɪktʃər/
noun
- A strong criticism or negative remark about someone's behavior or actions.
- The journalist faced strictures from the public for her biased reporting.
- His strictures on the company's safety record were harsh but fair.
- The committee's strictures about the project's delays caused tension in the team.
- A restriction or limit placed on something, often by a rule or law.
- The new law placed strictures on how much water factories could use.
- Budget strictures forced the school to cancel the art program.
- Religious strictures prevented them from eating certain foods.
- A medical condition where a passage in the body becomes abnormally narrow.
- Treatment for the intestinal stricture involved a special diet and medication.
- The patient was diagnosed with a urethral stricture and needed surgery.
- Doctors found a stricture in his esophagus that made swallowing difficult.
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