English Dictionary

tighten up

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To make sufficiently tight. / (transitive) To fix something or make it correct. / (intransitive) To become tense and restrained.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）十分に締める、締付ける / （他動詞）（問題点などを）修正する、正しく整える / （自動詞）緊張して固くなる、引き締まる

Please tighten up the bolts on the railing before the ceremony.

式の前に手すりのボルトを十分に締めてください。

意味（1）

(transitive) To make sufficiently tight.

意味（2）

(transitive) To fix something or make it correct.

As noted in the last chapter, you should tighten up your argument and prose when you revise the first draft for substantive change.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To become tense and restrained.

You must follow every change because every change affects your play. If another player loses a big pot, you must ask yourself how this will affect his play. Will he go on tilt? Will he tighten up?

意味（4）

(intransitive, transitive) To become stringent and ungenerous.

In May 1973 Honecker made another speech to the SED Central Committee, in which he appeared to want to tighten up the rules, as if his remarks in 1971 had been interpreted too liberally, but the VIIth Writers' Congress in November of the same year confirmed the relative freedom of the previous two years.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To become focused and serious; To stop any vacillation or inconsistency.

Plainly winter was at hand. Just as well we started when we did, said Bill. No tellin' when she'll tighten up. May do it any time, Sam agreed.

tightens up （ present singular third-person ）

tightening up （ participle present ）

tightened up （ participle past ）

tightened up （ past ）