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tightening (43 synonym found)

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accelerando

acceleration

aggravation

beefing-up

blowing up

blowup

clamping

clamping down

compression

consolidation

crescendoing

crescent

crush

deepening

enhancement

exacerbation

exaggeration

expanding

explosion

growing

heating-up

heightening

increasing

incremental

information explosion

intensification

intensifying

lengthening

magnification

multiplying

on the increase

population explosion

proliferating

redoubling

reinforcement

snowballing

speedup

spreading

squeeze

squeezing

strengthening

tweak

waxing

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Definition of tightening:

(v) : present participle of the verb to tighten

(adj) : that is becoming more tight

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Definition of tightening:

(v) : present participle of the verb to tighten

(adj) : that is becoming more tight

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