Crossword-Solution: TAUTENED
We have 25 clues for the answer “TAUTENED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Took up the slack? | 1 answer |
| Took up the slack in | 1 answer |
| Removed slack from | 1 answer |
| Made tight | 1 answer |
| Like a rope in tug of war | 1 answer |
| Like a fishing line after a bite | 1 answer |
| Got rid of slack | 1 answer |
| Became less slack | 1 answer |
| STRETCHED tight | 4 answers |
| Put a strain on | 7 answers |
| gelled | 19 answers |
| jelled | 19 answers |
| stiffened | 20 answers |
| thickened | 20 answers |
| tensed | 20 answers |
| glaciated | 20 answers |
| deepened | 20 answers |
| crystallised | 20 answers |
| Congealed | 21 answers |
| Solidified | 22 answers |
| Refrigerated | 23 answers |
| starched | 24 answers |
| froze | 25 answers |
| Cooled | 25 answers |
| hardened | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TAUTENED (5)
The Killer braced himself with the rope across his hip, and as the antelope tautened the singing strands in a last frantic bound for liberty he was thrown over upon his back.
The chain tautened, the massive links sang to the strain, and the great beast gave a roar which shook the walls.
The ice glared like fire, A long bright Hell of choking cold, And each vein was a tautened wire, Throbbing with torture -- and I crawled.
Then the whole rod arched suddenly, the reel sang, the line tautened and cut diagonally through the water.
French Louis, looking on sceptically, cried out, "Pool lak hell, Daylight! Pool lak hell!" Daylight's muscles tautened a second time, and this time in earnest, until steadily all the energy of his splendid body was applied, and quite imperceptibly, without jerk or strain, the bulky nine hundred pounds rose from the door and swung back and forth, pendulum like, between his legs.
Quotes with TAUTENED (1)
But doctor, even you, a Hittite, saw what our Mycenaean shields were like! Oh, don’t smile, I may be an old woman, but I known what I am talking about, and if you will be patient, you will understand, too… You do not see the wholeness of things, the Virtue, the arête. You observe one fact, the single symptom, like the Hittite doctor you are, but your eyes are blind to the Ananke, the whole Order of things which even the gods cannot infringe. The shield is formed on a frame, a…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (2007–2020).