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Tightening   /tˈaɪtənɪŋ/  /tˈaɪtnɪŋ/   Listen
Tightening

noun
1.
The act of making something tighter.


Tighten

verb
(past & past part. tightened; pres. part. tightening)
1.
Make tight or tighter.  Synonym: fasten.
2.
Become tight or tighter.
3.
Restrict.  Synonyms: constrain, stiffen, tighten up.  "Stiffen the regulations"
4.
Narrow or limit.  Synonym: reduce.



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"Tightening" Quotes from Famous Books



... We'll be lucky now if we are in time for the morning editions." Scott was tightening his ...
— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle
... but that last one hundred yards they could not, by all the eloquence of their leaders or the promises of Paradise from their priests, be induced to cross. Nor was it only the Afghans who felt the tightening strain; it was an anxious moment for the British, too, for given one slight slip, one weakhearted corner, and the whole thin line might have been swept away by the onslaught of ...
— The Story of the Guides • G. J. Younghusband
... of democracy by passing our election reform and financing proposals, by tightening our laws regulating lobbying, and by restoring a reasonable franchise to Americans ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Lyndon B. Johnson • Lyndon B. Johnson
... the real sense of it came upon him. Suddenly he let go the lank throat of his enemy, and, by a supreme effort, flung him across the stage, where Jopp lay resting on his hands, his bleared eyes looking at Terry with the fear and horror still in them which had come with that tightening grip on his throat. ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker
... rose, forced the fellow to roll over, and hitched the fall of the line round both wrists again, and made it fast, so that the man lay, with his head drawn back by his own hands, which he could not move without tightening the ...
— Adam Johnstone's Son • F. Marion Crawford


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