Adjacent Words

tightening definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of making something tighter; "the tightening of economic controls" [ant: laxation, loosening]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tighten Tight"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Tightening.] To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. --Fawkes. Tightening pulley (Mach.), a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see tighten

Moby Thesaurus

accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, clamping, clamping down, compression, concentration, condensation, consolidation, crescendoing, crescent, crush, deepening, enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, expanding, explosion, growing, heating-up, heightening, increasing, incremental, information explosion, intensification, intensifying, lengthening, magnification, multiplying, nip, on the increase, pickup, pinch, population explosion, press, pressure, proliferating, redoubling, reinforcement, snowballing, speedup, spreading, squeeze, squeezing, step-up, strengthening, swelling, tweak, waxing