| taut | | |
| taut, tight | (adj.) | pulled or drawn tight.; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" |
| taut | (adj.) | subjected to great tension; stretched tight.; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow" |
| tight | | |
| tight | (adj.) | closely constrained or constricted or constricting.; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest" |
| tight | (adj.) | set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration.; "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade" |
| compressed, tight | (adj.) | pressed tightly together.; "with lips compressed" |
| mean, mingy, miserly, tight | (adj.) | (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" |
| tight | (adj.) | affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow.; "tight money"; "a tight market" |
| tight | (adj.) | of such close construction as to be impermeable.; "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house" |
| close, tight | (adj.) | of textiles.; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave" |
| tight | (adj.) | securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid.; "the bolts are tight" |
| close, tight | (adj.) | (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched.; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game" |
| besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet | (adj.) | very drunk. |
| nasty, tight | (adj.) | exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent.; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" |
| rigorous, stringent, tight | (adj.) | demanding strict attention to rules and procedures.; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" |
| tight | (adj.) | packed closely together.; "they stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight" |
| fast, tight | (adv.) | firmly or closely.; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" |
| close, closely, tight | (adv.) | in an attentive manner.; "he remained close on his guard" |
| tense | | |
| tense | (n.) | a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. |
| strain, tense | (v.) | become stretched or tense or taut.; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;"; "the rope strained when the weight was attached" |
| tense | (v.) | increase the tension on.; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring" |
| tense, tense up | (v.) | become tense, nervous, or uneasy.; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" |
| strain, tense, tense up | (v.) | cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious.; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" |
| tense | (adj.) | in or of a state of physical or nervous tension. |
| tense | (adj.) | pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat'). |
| tense | (adj.) | taut or rigid; stretched tight.; "tense piano strings" |
| rack | | |
| rack | (n.) | framework for holding objects. |
| rack | (n.) | rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton. |
| rack, wrack | (n.) | the destruction or collapse of something.; "wrack and ruin" |
| rack, wheel | (n.) | an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims. |
| rack, stand | (n.) | a support for displaying various articles.; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack" |
| rack | (n.) | a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body. |
| rack, single-foot | (n.) | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately. |
| rack, single-foot | (v.) | go at a rack.; "the horses single-footed" |
| rack | (v.) | stretch to the limits.; "rack one's brains" |
| rack | (v.) | put on a rack and pinion.; "rack a camera" |
| extort, gouge, rack, squeeze, wring | (v.) | obtain by coercion or intimidation.; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" |
| rack, scud | (v.) | run before a gale. |
| rack | (v.) | fly in high wind. |
| rack | (v.) | draw off from the lees.; "rack wine" |
| excruciate, rack, torment, torture | (v.) | torment emotionally or mentally. |
| rack | (v.) | work on a rack.; "rack leather" |
| rack | (v.) | seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block. |
| rack | (v.) | torture on the rack. |
| tighten | | |
| fasten, tighten | (v.) | make tight or tighter.; "Tighten the wire" |
| tighten | (v.) | become tight or tighter.; "The rope tightened" |
| constrain, stiffen, tighten, tighten up | (v.) | restrict.; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations" |
| reduce, tighten | (v.) | narrow or limit.; "reduce the influx of foreigners" |
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