Tighten up Crossword Clue
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Tighten up crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on September 6 2023 Thomas Joseph Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Tighten up has a total of 8 letters.
| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | CONTRACT | Tighten up | Thomas Joseph |
| 20% | RELACE | Tighten up, perhaps | Newsday |
Definition
| • | To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. |
| • | To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. |
| • | To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. |
| • | To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. |
| • | To betroth; to affiance. |
| • | To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. |
| • | To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. |
| • | To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail. |
| • | Contracted; as, a contract verb. |
| • | Contracted; affianced; betrothed. |
| • | The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights. |
| • | A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. |
| • | The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. |
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- Thomas Joseph: Sep 6, 2023
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