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.