Usually means: Making something tight or tense.
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  1. tautening: Merriam-Webster
  2. tautening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tautening: Vocabulary.com
  4. tautening: Wordnik
  5. tautening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tautening: Wiktionary
  7. tautening: Dictionary.com
  8. tautening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tautening: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tautening)

▸ noun:  The act of making something taut.

Similar:
firm, tensing, tousling, take-up, tying, taping, tenter, taming, jointing, nettling, more...

Opposite:
loosening, relaxing, slackening

Adjectives:
sudden, little, systolic, curious, slight

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Similar:
firm, tensing, tousling, take-up, tying, taping, tenter, taming, jointing, nettling, more...

Opposite:
loosening, relaxing, slackening

Adjectives:
sudden, little, systolic, curious, slight



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