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Answer : TAUT
taut – a
subjected to great tension; stretched tight
tauten, tautens, tautened, tautening – v
to make taut
SYNONYMS
Verb: strain, stretch, tense, tighten
SENTENCE EXAMPLES
“The wire tautened as they pulled on it.”
“he tautened the rope and then tied it off”
“Those systems use hydraulics or electromagnetic fluids to soften or tauten the ride.”
ETYMOLOGY
taut (adj.)
mid-13c., tohte “stretched or pulled tight,” possibly from tog-, past participle stem of Old English teon “to pull, drag,” from Proto-Germanic *theuhanan, from PIE root *deuk- “to lead,” which would connect it to tow (v.) and tie.
More Clues
- ARIA What might be a strain in a theater?
- HUMS Carries a tune, in a way
- SIFT Strain, in a way
- ARTESIAN It might be a strain, at the end, but it could turn out well
- TAUTEN Strain, in a way
- TSARINA It may be a strain for a Russian empress
- COLANDER It may cause a strain in the kitchen
- MASTRICK Post is a strain in 12Ac
- SIEVING Straining, in a way
- ISOTOPE Variant in a laboratory
- SIFTS Strains, in a way
- TEMPLATE Guide for a tenor in church
- FUTURE PERFECT A tense in grammar
- PERFECT Ideal; a tense in grammar
- RAP ARTISTS Musicians writing to a tenor in Paris on back street
- SING ‘Carry a tune in class, in German ‘
- ASHY What could tray be? A try!
- PART Tenor in a barbershop quartet, e.g.
- DIAL Tune in a radio station
- FRAY Show effects of strain in fight
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