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4 collocations for tautening
He went ahead; he stopped and braced himself; he tautened the rope about her waist and said: "Come on.
They just tautened all my nerves and made me feel that all my questions were impertinent, and all my good wishes flat and empty, and that I resembled a visitor to a Zoo.
The mania for murder that obsessed him tautened his sinews.
Primers were placed in the vents of the already loaded guns, and the gun-captains stepped back, tautening the lock-strings, and bending down to glance along the sights.