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.