tighten up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As noted in the last chapter, you should tighten up your argument and prose when you revise the first draft for substantive change."
- "He might do a third cut of silage, or he'd tighten up around the place in preparation for the winter, or he'd be still going off doing blocklaying jobs."
- "You must follow every change because every change affects your play. If another player loses a big pot, you must ask yourself how this will affect his play. Will he go on tilt? Will he tighten up?"
- "He could feel himself tighten up as he prepared himself to ask her."
- "In May 1973 Honecker made another speech to the SED Central Committee, in which he appeared to want to tighten up the rules, as if his remarks in 1971 had been interpreted too liberally, but the VIIth Writers' Congress in November of the same year confirmed the relative freedom of the previous two years."
- "The church was tighening up on matters sexual. Until the middle of the tenth century it had been quite routine for priests to be married."