ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Made or become tight; drawn tight or close; tense, stretched; firm, rigid; constricted.

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1760.  Fawkes, trans. Anacreon, Ode, lix. 7. With tighten’d Rein, I’ll urge thee round the dusty Plain.

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1810.  Scott, Lady of L., II. xxxvi. Malcolm did … bind … His ample plaid in tightened fold.

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1833.  Coleridge, Table-t., 10 Aug. Like a sigh heaved up from the tightened chest of a sick man.

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1880.  G. Meredith, Tragic Com. (1881), 291. The tightened grasp of her hand confessed her understanding of the thing she pressed to hear repeated.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 48. The pulse may be but little changed [in angina], yet it is sometimes tightened.

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