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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tauten .
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Examples
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As the lot approaches, one's heartbeat quickens, the mouth grows dry, the body tautens.
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Suddenly he tautens up his muscles and stands up straight with shoulders back and clenched hands.
Plays of Near & Far Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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The thick rope tautens as the firemen lay their weight to it.
Back Home Eugene Wood 1891
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