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Make stricter
Answer for the clue "Make stricter ", 7 letters:
tighten
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire" [syn: fasten ] become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened" restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations" [syn: stiffen , tighten up , constrain ] narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to make tight," 1727; the earlier verb was simply tight , from Old English tyhtan , from the root of tight . Related: Tightened ; tightening .
Usage examples of tighten.
Tonight, for just an instant-was Alec tightened his grip on the sword lying across his knees.
He wedged the rubberized flashlight between two outcroppings of aragonite, and in its beam attached the mask to the air tank, grunting with pain as he tightened the connections with his flayed fingers.
Sir John Bittle had an uncomfortable feeling that those eyes were keen enough to note the slightest tightening of a muscle.
David tightened the straps of his bungee jacket and jumped onto his boards.
His groin tightened painfully at the thought, and he angrily tempered the burgeoning lust.
Lal Chunder, tightening his grip as he spoke, to the manifest discomfort of the man against the tree.
Tightening my arms about her, I pressed my cock against her dimpled rump, gently grinding against her cushiony ass.
And so, tighten the cinches on Rocinante, and God be with you, and wait for me here no more than three days, and if I have not come back by then, you may return to our village, and from there, as a boon and good deed for my sake, you will go to Toboso and tell my peerless lady Dulcinea that her captive knight died performing deeds that would make him worthy of being called her own.
More than one eye drifted to Duv Galeni, whose jaw tightened slightly.
The sudden glint of her silver eyes under those long, curved lashes and the tightening of her lips told him she was no longer embarrassed but angry.
Jarrett felt his own head seem to contract as though the frug had tightened up like a steel band.
He struggled, choked, gagged, cried for mercy, but the hand only tightened its crushing grip, inflicting punishment without mercy, descending down out of the darkness like a cyclone from a thundercloud.
He put his back to the ladder, tightened his grip on the twister, an arm on each side of the grommet, lifted his leg to clear the baffle, then staggered as a sudden roll of the ship threw the weight of the missile against him.
These gyves not only bound her skirts but involved her feet in an extraordinary mesh, which tightened at the first step and brought her to a standstill.
She quickly looked down at the hymnal, only to have to tighten her grip on the book when it started to slip from her trembling fingers.