tightened
- 1Simple past and past participle of tighten.
The mechanic tightened every bolt on the wheel before the race.
Security had tightened across the city after the warning went out.
Note
One regular -ed form serves as both past tense and participle, across the verb's transitive and intransitive uses. When something is made tighter, the participle can go passive: the straps were tightened. When something becomes tighter, there is no passive, only the perfect: the rope had tightened. In finance it means money made harder to borrow, as when a central bank tightened by raising short-term rates.
tightened is a form of tighten
tighten, verb: To make something firmer, more taut, or more secure, typically by pulling or turning. Full entry
- Forms
- tightentightens he/she/ittightening -ing formtightened past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- tighten → tightened: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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