Verb

• S: (v) tighten, fasten (make tight or tighter) "Tighten the wire"
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• S: (v) frap (take up the slack of) "frap a rope"
• S: (v) tauten, firm (make taut or tauter) "tauten a rope"
• S: (v) screw (tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions) "Screw the bottle cap on"
• S: (v) wind, wind up (coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem) "wind your watch"
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• W: (n) tightening [Related to: tighten] (the act of making something tighter) "the tightening of economic controls"
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• W: (n) loosening (the act of making something less tight)
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• S: (v) tighten (become tight or tighter) "The rope tightened"
• S: (v) stiffen, tighten, tighten up, constrain (severely restrict in scope or extent) "tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"
• S: (v) reduce, tighten (narrow or limit) "reduce the influx of foreigners"
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