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View definitions for tightening

tightening

noun as in narrowing

noun as in stricture

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Ironically, Trotter had succeeded in tightening a censorship bill but failed to stop the movie.

“They think Putin is the only evil in Russia and dream about getting rid of him,” he said, tightening his grip on the wheel.

Luqman and Khader took me into a tightening series of courtyards.

The war is tightening around all of them, those just back from it and others waiting to join the battle.

However jaded I might be, I still found my throat tightening as I hoped for the best, watching everyone struggling to be brave.

She saw the tightening of his lips, the hardening of his eyes, beyond which he gave no other sign that she had hit him.

So the captive sinks and moans when he finds that his break for freedom has led only to the tightening of his chains.

One afternoon it began to freeze, and the frost increased with evening, which drew on like a stealthy tightening of bonds.

And then Agnes reminded herself, with tightening breath, that men like Frank Barlow are always kind—too kind—to women.

Yet her right hand as though endowed with a volition of its own was tightening its grasp upon the hilt of the knife.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tightening, such as: decrease, deflation, recession, reduction, shrinkage, and abbreviation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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