1. Become taut or tauter
   "the rope tautened"
   - firm 
2. Make taut or tauter
   "tauten a rope"
   - firm

Derived forms: tautened, tautening, tautens

Type of: fasten, tighten

• trumpetfish
• trumpets
• trumpetwood
• trumping
• truncate
• truncated
• truncated cone
• truncated pyramid
• truncation
• truncation error
• truncheon
• Truncocolumella
• Truncocolumella citrina
• truncus atrioventricularis
• truncus celiacus
• truncus pulmonalis
• trundle
• trundle bed
• trundler
• trunk
• trunk call
• trunk hose
• trunk lid
• trunk line
• trunk road