tauten
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tauten
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From taut + -en.
verb tautens · tautening · tautened
- To make taut; to taut. Tauten the rope.
- To become taut. Time has knitted her skin into webs of wrinkles. Muscles sag here, tauten there, her eyelids droop. Her pearls are of inferior quality most likely, and her hair is mussed from an afternoon of rounding up grandchildren.
Talk about this word "tauten." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tauten. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tauten. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tauten "tauten." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tauten.
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@misc{tauten_2026,
title = {tauten},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tauten},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
