All tighten synonyms

verb tighten

• cinched — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
• co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
• bring into line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
• crane — A crane is a large machine that moves heavy things by lifting them in the air.
• fine tune — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
• clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
• clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
• flex — to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
• craned — any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
• hook up — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
• wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
• craning — any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
• blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• gluing — a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
• button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• cockled — Simple past tense and past participle of cockle.
• cinching — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
• look over — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
• lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• fasten — to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
• batten — A batten is a long strip of wood that is fixed to something to strengthen it or to hold it firm.
• cinch — If you say that something is a cinch, you mean that you think it is very easy to do.
• clench — When you clench your fist or your fist clenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
• adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
• densified — to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
• furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
• astringe — to contract or become contracted
• lock — a tress, curl, or ringlet of hair.
• astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
• mortise — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
• boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
• glued — Simple past tense and past participle of glue.
• densify — to make or become denser
• constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
• calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
• edit — to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
• constringe — to shrink or contract
• branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
• draw in — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
• mortised — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
• densifying — to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
• calibrated — marked with units
• blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• glueing — Present participle of glue; obsolete spelling of gluing.