Word Meanings - TIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 , a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIGHTEN)

• Strain
• Stretch
• tighten
• force
• exert
• filter
• filtrate
• percolate
• depurate
• purify
• clarify
• defecate
• lixiviate
• Extend
• expand
• elongate
• draw out
• spread
• strain
• reach

Related words: (words related to TIGHTEN)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• EXERT
  out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• TIGHTENER
  That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• REACH
  An effort to vomit.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• REACHABLE
  Being within reach.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• LIXIVIATE
  To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• INFILTRATE
  To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• INFILTER
  To filter or sift in.
• GUNREACH
  The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.