Word Meanings - UNTIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make less tight or tense; to loosen.
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- TIGHTENER
That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley. - TIGHT
p. p. of Tie. Spenser. - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - TIGHTNESS
The quality or condition of being tight. - TENSE
One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time. Note: The primary simple tenses are three: - TIGHTEN
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. - LOOSENESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles. - TIGHTER
A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer. - LOOSENER
One who, or that which, loosens. - TIGHTLY
In a tight manner; closely; nearly. - TIGHTS
Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs. - WINDTIGHT
So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - HIGHTY-TIGHTY
Hoity-toity. - INTENSE
to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: - PRETENSELESS
Not having or making pretenses. - GASTIGHT
So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas. - INTENSENESS
The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought. - UNLOOSEN
To loosen; to unloose. - RAIN-TIGHT
So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof. - PRETENSED
Pretended; feigned. -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv. - UNTIGHTEN
To make less tight or tense; to loosen. - SUBTENSE
A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.