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tighten [ˈtaıtən] VB trans, intr (up)

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Usage examples with tighten

tighten up on security
加强安全保卫
tighten one's belt fig
系紧裤带 jìjǐn kùdài

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The guitar has 24 frets and the strings are tightened through the body.
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Security was again tightened, with 9,000 police deployed in three layers of security at the 13 counting centres within the 12 districts.
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The knit tightens, creases are eliminated and the leg is correctly shaped.
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The security at the embassy was tightened in the early 1980s, when the embassy was burned to the ground in 1979 by extremists.
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It supports economic integration and tightening the cooperation in areas of energetic security and military, but is skeptical about closer political integration.
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Price controls were tightened, and a new currency was introduced.
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As muscle tension increases a number of problems occur: muscle fibers tighten, blood vessels become compressed, tissue metabolites are retained and local edema occurs.
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Both teams' defenses tightened up, and the clubs exchanged punts twice.
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The cables were then to be tightened at each low tide, inching the wreck towards shore with each high tide.
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Production was significantly faster, with the former four-day filming schedules now tightened to two or three days.
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