Angustia, angustiæ: siue potius Angustiæ, angustiariuum, pluraliter rantùm. Cæl. Streights or narow places: also perpleritie and trouble of minde.Angustia loci. Plin. Narownesse. Pectoris angustiæ, per metaphoram.Cic.Basenesse of stomacke and wit, not able to compasse or atchiene any great enterprise. Angustia orationis.Cic.Spare eloquence.Ad angustias verborum aliquem reuocare Cic.Not to rest in the sence or meaning, but to take the wordes streightly attording to the letter. Angustiæ ærarij Cicer.Scarcitie of money in the common treasutie.Rei familiaris angustia.Cic.Small substaunce.Ex suis angustijs alterius sustentare tenuitatem.Cicer.With his small substaunce. Angustiæ temporum.Cic.Shortnesse of time, also aduersitie or troublous state of time. Angustijs vrgeri.Cic.To be in great distresse.Adductus est in summas angustias.Cic.He hath muth a doi by is brought into a great streight.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
angustĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [angustus], pr. to make narrow, to straiten; only trop. and in eccl. Lat. to straiten, hamper, distress: angustiatus prae pavore, Vulg. Jud. 13, 29: qui se angustiaverunt, ib. Sap. 5, 1: sed non angustiamur, ib. 2 Cor. 4, 8; 6, 12; ib. Heb. 11, 37.