Usually means: Made more secure or constricted.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. tightened: Merriam-Webster
  2. tightened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tightened: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tightened, tightened: Wordnik
  5. tightened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tightened: Wiktionary
  7. tightened: Dictionary.com
  8. tightened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tightened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. tightened: Rhymezone
  11. Tightened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tightened: FreeDictionary.org
  13. tightened: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tightened: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tightened: Idioms

(Note: See tighten as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (tightened)

adjective:  made tight or tighter ("The tightened ropes")
adjective:  made tighter or more stringent ("Endured tightened economic controls")


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