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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened" [syn: tauten, firm]
2: make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope" [syn: tauten, firm]

Merriam Webster's

verb (tautened; tautening) Date: circa 1814 transitive verb to make taut <tauten the rope> intransitive verb to become taut

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tautens, tautening, tautened) If a part of your body tautens or if you tauten it, it becomes stiff or firm. Her whole body tautened violently... There are exercises that tauten facial muscles. VERB: V, V n

Moby Thesaurus

continue, crank, crank in, drag out, draw, draw in, draw out, draw taut, elongate, extend, lengthen, lengthen out, let out, produce, prolong, prolongate, protract, pull, pull in, reel, reel in, spin out, strain, stretch, stretch out, string out, tackle, tense, tighten, trim, winch, wind in, windlass