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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.

 

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