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7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb make tight or tighter
verb become tight or tighter
verb restrict
originSynchronically equivalent to tight + -en, but actually derived from Middle English tighten, from Old English tyhtan, thus originally unrelated to tight (Old English *þiht).
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