tightening

n. fastening, strengthening; act of making something tighter; become tight or tighter; making skin less lax, act of making the sking tighter

v. make tight, pull taught; become tight, become taught

Noun
1. the act of making something tighter; "the tightening of economic controls"
(antonym) loosening, laxation
(hypernym) alteration, modification, adjustment
(hyponym) take-up
(derivation) tighten, fasten

Verb
1. make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"
(synonym) fasten
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) frap
(derivation) tightening
2. become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened"
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) constrict, constringe, narrow
3. restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"
(synonym) stiffen, tighten up, constrain
(hypernym) restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
4. narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
(synonym) reduce
(hypernym) restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
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Synonyms and related words:
accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, clamping, clamping down, compression, concentration, condensation, consolidation, crescendoing, crescent, crush, deepening, enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, expanding, explosion, growing, heating-up, heightening, increasing, incremental, information explosion, intensification, intensifying, lengthening, magnification, multiplying, nip, on the increase, pickup, pinch, population explosion, press, pressure, proliferating, redoubling, reinforcement, snowballing, speedup, spreading, squeeze, squeezing, step-up, strengthening, swelling, tweak, waxing|
  

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