I'll tighten the screw. She tightened her hold on the handle. His jaw muscles tightened. Security around the building has tightened up recently. They tightened up security around the building. We installed new machines to tighten up the assembly line.
The meaning of TIGHTEN is to make tight or tighter. How to use tighten in a sentence.
TIGHTEN definition: 1. to become tighter or to make something become tighter, firmer, or less easy to move: 2. to…. Learn more.
Idioms tighten one's belt, to respond to difficult times by reducing one's spending: The family had to tighten their belts so the children could go to college. tight en er, n. [countable]
Verb tighten (third-person singular simple present tightens, present participle tightening, simple past and past participle tightened) (transitive) To make tighter.
To tighten means to make something more fixed, secure or rigid by causing its parts to come closer or by reducing slack. It can also refer to the act of making something stricter or more carefully controlled.
Examples She had to tighten the screws on the chair to make it stable. He decided to tighten his budget to save money for the trip. The coach asked the players to tighten their defense in the second half of the game.
Definition of tighten verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
"Tighten the wire "; - fasten Become tight or tighter "The rope tightened" (of laws or regulations) make more restrictive, or impose greater penalties "tighten the rules "; - stiffen, tighten up, constrain Narrow or limit "The bank tightened its lending criteria "; - reduce Sounds like: ties, ighten, titan Derived forms: tightens, tightening ...