Tighten is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TIGHTEN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make tight
• make or become tight or tighter
• To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
• make tight or tighter
• restrict
• narrow or limit

Words related to TIGHTEN

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Words that contain TIGHTEN

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How to use TIGHTEN in a sentence

• The General at once ordered his men to tighten their saddles and otherwise prepare for action.
• Never again would the wonderful creature tighten a rope on her neck.
• Another bad quality of coat is one in which, upon the withers and over the loins in particular, the curls do not tighten up naturally, but are large, loose, and soft to the feel.
• The first effect of the change was probably rather to tighten than to relax the bond of union with the Thrale family.
• And a thought or a vision gripped that spirit, and he tightened under it as a muscle would tighten.
• Lord Rhondda is still hopeful that John Bull will tighten his own belt and save him the trouble.
• About the time he got the noose pulled up around the hog so that he could tighten up on it, he dropped his hat and scared the hog.
• Then it whispered something that made her hands suddenly tighten and a hot flush sweep through her.
• She was wide awake, staring at the moonlight, when she suddenly felt the soft white strings of the thing tighten around her throat and realized that her enemy was again upon her.
• Almost immediately she felt the soft strings tighten around her throat.
• A common plan now is to tighten the line, and tap the butt end of the rod.
• She felt his arm tighten round her, as she stood in the embrace of the beloved, scarcely daring to breathe, for fear of breaking the sad spell that had linked them together.
• We had to tighten our belts before we came to the wood wherein cross-roads meet, from north, south, and east, within five miles of the town of Chinon.
• We are their lords, or they are free of us, Just as we tighten or relax that hold.
• She did not believe that he was wholly unconscious, for she had seen his eyelids tighten and his lips twitch several times, when she was waiting for Swan.
• If a man rises a little above the general level of his fellows, the cords tighten.
• It seemed as though slowly the net was beginning at last to tighten around him.
• Besides, the lightning flashed so brightly that I was able to grope my way through the long line of empty rooms, tighten the fastenings, and shut the windows.
• Pull the zinc up as far as it will go and tighten the lower thumb screw so that it holds the wire secure.
• When through using the battery, raise the zinc and tighten the lower thumb screw.
• On Sundays, among the crowds, I have often felt my heart tighten with distress as I watch the unknown women.
• He sat leaning forward, looking at his right arm, bending and stretching it, watching the muscles swell and the sinews tighten under the skin.
• A sailor sometimes makes on a rope intended to baffle the wind, a slack knot which he leaves to the wind to tighten.
• If the screw covers are used tighten them after the glass has cooled.
• Olga stood as one petrified, feeling the arm around her tighten to a grip, but too lost in horror to take any note thereof.
• They will have to tighten up a few screws, or something of the kind.
• In that early day I felt the unseen lines tighten around me.
• But the strings only strengthen and tighten under the strain of use.

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