Definitions
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- verb To
tighten ; increase in intensity; to becometaught . - verb nonstandard Past participle of
teach
Etymologies
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From Middle English toght ("stretched, strained, tight")
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Examples
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The cradle seemed now to taughten, now to be lowered so much, that he and his charge were nearly submerged by the foaming water.
Won from the Waves William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Then, you know, we might construct a pontoon by making a raft to float on a multitude of empty barrels, pass chains under the _Seagull_ and fix them to this pontoon at low water, so that when the tide rose she would rise perforce along with the pontoon and tide, and could be moved inshore till she grounded; then, waiting for low tide, we could taughten the chains again, and repeat the process till we got her ashore.
Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859
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