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estrecho in English:

1. narrow narrow


What narrow stairs!
My what a narrow waist! Her face is small, she really looks just like a doll!
You are in a narrow rocky shaft. There is some light shining from far above. Below you is the cave you started in. What do you do now?
We sped into the narrow track, hardly dropping any speed. "It's a short cut!" "Oi! It's a footpath!!"
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Why do physicists converge? Because they're monotonous and narrow.
Hutongs are a type of narrow street, most commonly associated with Beijing, China.
He who walks the straight and narrow path must resist temptations of all sorts.
Microfibre cloth is cloth woven from fibres as narrow as a hundredth of the width of a hair.
The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
Businesses perceive as competitors a narrow range of the business world; there are many cases where they don't understand their real rivals.
We will be able to narrow this gap and, reduce some of the social problems. that come from this economic inequality.
What we cannot agree to, however, is a narrow understanding of this whole problem.!
I narrowed my eyes when I heard his words.
There's such a narrow margin between giving an acceptable tip and a generous one.

English word "estrecho"(narrow) occurs in sets:

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2. cramped cramped


The tent was really cramped - we were squashed like sardines.
This room is cramped.
I want to move out of this cramped room as soon as I can.
My leg cramped up as I ran down the stairs to catch a train, and I had to sit down right there in the middle of the stairway.
A little cramped, but we'll make do.
There are a lot of tables for the size of the restaurant; so we felt a bit cramped.
Student flats can be quite cramped if there are a few students living together in one room.
There are a dozen of them living in a two-bedroom flat, so you can imagine how cramped the place is.
The troops slept in cramped conditions with up to 20 in a single room.
it was cramped on the train
It is a bit cramped in here, why don’t you move to a bigger flat?
a cramped ​room/​house / We have six ​desks in this ​room, so we're a little cramped (for ​space).
We had to move to a bigger house when the baby was born, as our flat was too cramped.
He lived for six months in a cold, cramped attic room.
Don`t put that big table into your kitchen, there will be too cramped.

English word "estrecho"(cramped) occurs in sets:

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