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verb

1. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
• Syn:
distress
• Hypernyms:
trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode,
incommode, bother
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
2. squeeze together
• Hypernyms:
confine, detain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody