kiristää

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • (transitive) to tighten make tight
  • (transitive) to tighten to make money harder to borrow
  • (transitive) to extort, blackmail
  • (transitive) to gnash, grind (teeth)
  • (transitive) to make more strict or stringent
  • (transitive) to wring, extort to obtain by force
  • (intransitive) to be too tight

Etymology

Suffix from Finnish kireä.

Origin

Finnish

kireä

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