English-German translations for stricture

• Flaschenhals der
• Verengung die

Definition of stricture

• a rule restricting behaviour or action
• a general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology
• a sternly critical remark or review
• strictness
• a stroke; a glance; a touch
• the degree of contact, in consonants

Examples

• 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
• I just couldnt take the stricture of that place a single day more.

Related words

• strict
• district
• restrict
• strictly
• constrict
• constricted
• constriction
• constrictor
• restricting
• restriction