Meanings
present singular third person tautens · participle present tautening · participle past tautened · past tautened
- ergativeTo become taut.
The rope tautened.
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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.
2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 428
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tauten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tauten
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