stringō inxī, ictus, ere STRAG-, to draw tight, bind tight, compress, press together: stricta frigore volnera, L.: ferri duritiem, forge, Ct. dub.
—To touch lightly, graze: laevas cautes, V.: Stringebat summas ales undas, O.: metas rotā, O.: tela stringentia corpus, V.: dente pedem, O.
—Of places, to border on, touch: Scytharum gens ultima Asiae, quā Bactra sunt, stringit, Cu.
—To strip off, pluck off, cut away, clip, prune: quernas glandes, V.: folia ex arboribus, Cs.: strictis foliis vivere, L.: celeriter gladios, unsheathe, Cs.: strictam aciem offerre, V.: cultrum, L.: manum, to bare, O.
— cf. in hostīs stringatur iambus, be drawn (as a weapon), O.
—Fig., to waste, consume, reduce: Praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem, H.
—To touch, move, affect, injure, wound, pain: animum, V.: nomen meum, O.