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verb (used with or without object)
- to make or become tight or tighter.
verb
- to make or become tight or tighter
- tighten one’s belt to economize
v.“to make tight,” 1727; the earlier verb was simply tight, from Old English tyhtan, from the root of tight. Related: Tightened; tightening.