All loosen antonyms

verb loosen

• engage — Occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention).
• tighten — make more snug or secure
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• fasten — to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
• connect — If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, the two things are joined together.
• couple — If you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.
• hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• link — a torch, especially of tow and pitch.
• combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
• unite — to join, combine, or incorporate so as to form a single whole or unit.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
• button — Buttons are small hard objects sewn on to shirts, coats, or other pieces of clothing. You fasten the clothing by pushing the buttons through holes called buttonholes.
• attach — If you attach something to an object, you join it or fasten it to the object.
• join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.