'Stricture' definitions:
Definition of 'stricture'
From: WordNet
noun
Abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway [syn: stenosis, stricture]
noun
Severe criticism
Definition of 'Stricture'
From: GCIDE
- Stricture \Stric"ture\, n. [L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict.]
- 1. Strictness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure. [1913 Webster]
- [I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and {Spasmodic stricture}, under Organic, and Spasmodic. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stricture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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