szorul

• disease

• cramp, push, tight squeeze

• with one's back to the wall

• he is in low water, to be hard run, to be in queer street, to be on one's beam-ends, to be up a tree

• to be bunkered, to be treed

• to get off

• ice-bound

• distress, exigence, exigency, extremity, fix

• stringent

• stringency

• his heart sank