I couldn't open the box because the lid was too tight;

Tighten. Fitting very or too closely. Stretched to a great extent; From longman dictionary of contemporary english tight‧en /ˈtaɪtn/ (also tighten up) verb 1 [ transitive] to close or fasten something firmly by turning it opp loosen tighten the screws.

The third reason that muscles get tight is injury. Il nodo si stava disfacendo perciò linda. Tighten definition, to make or become tight or tighter.

Tighten helped the garden give citizen scientists tools to protect rare species and act as stewards for our collective future. How to use tighten in a sentence. 1 v make tight or tighter “ tighten the wire” synonyms:

To become tighter or to make something become tighter, firmer, or less easy to move: Tighten [sth] up vtr phrasal sep. Tighten [sth] up vtr phrasal sep.

Past simple and past participle of tighten 2. Tight·ened , tight·en·ing , tight·ens to make or become tight or. We need to tighten up the rules, so this can never happen again.

We don’t have any open positions right. (fasten more securely) stringere ⇒, fissare ⇒ vtr. Muscles tighten protectively when they feel that something in the body is at danger of being injured.