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tightening
accelerando, blowup, condensation, deepening, explosion, incremental, magnification, pinch, redoubling, squeeze, tweak
Definition
n.
the act of making something tighter
Last update: September 3, 2015
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He flinched visibly as if she had slapped him, his fingers
tightening
on her arm.
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The Cossacks were untying their horses and
tightening
their saddle girths.
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It was like bygone years of another life to appear in defence when the law was
tightening
round a victim.
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"It can't be any too hard," answered the man with a grim
tightening
of the muscles around his mouth.
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Dick, all unconscious of distant opinion, watched the
tightening
of the steel belt, and helped in the task.
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Madden had looked forward with a certain grim
tightening
of her combative jaws to the home-coming of the "red-head."
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"Thank you, sir," said Jack, with a
tightening
around his heart.
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