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tighten

verb

1 tighten

Make tight or tighter:
— Tighten the wire.

synonym: fasten.

Roget 43: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together [Fr.], tack together, fix together, ... show more

Dutch: aandraaien

2 tighten

Become tight or tighter.

3 tighten

Severely restrict in scope or extent:
— Tighten the rules.

synonyms: constrain, stiffen, tighten up.

4 tighten

Narrow or limit.

synonym: reduce.

Roget 195: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease etc. 36; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: affix, anchor, annex, attach, back, belay, box, box in, box up, brace, cement, cinch, circumscribe, clamp, clinch, close, compress, confine, continue, cramp ... show more.

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