taut

adjective

/tɔːt/

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stretched tightly
- taut violin strings
- Keep the rope taut.
- His skin was stretched taut across his cheekbones.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- feel
- become
- …
preposition
- with
See full entry
showing that you are anxious or tense
- a voice taut with anger
- Her face was taut and pale.
- Her body went as taut as a bowstring.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- feel
- become
- …
preposition
- with
See full entry
(of a person or their body) with hard muscles; not fat
- His body was solid and taut.
(of a piece of writing, etc.) carefully written with no unnecessary parts in it
- a taut thriller
- the writer’s taut prose
Topics Literature and writingc2

Word OriginMiddle English tought ‘distended’, perhaps originally a variant of tough.

单词	taut
释义	taut adjective /tɔːt/ /tɔːt/ jump to other results stretched tightly taut violin strings Keep the rope taut. His skin was stretched taut across his cheekbones. Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs be feel become … preposition with See full entry showing that you are anxious or tense a voice taut with anger Her face was taut and pale. Her body went as taut as a bowstring. Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs be feel become … preposition with See full entry (of a person or their body) with hard muscles; not fat His body was solid and taut. (of a piece of writing, etc.) carefully written with no unnecessary parts in it a taut thriller the writer’s taut prose Topics Literature and writingc2 Word OriginMiddle English tought ‘distended’, perhaps originally a variant of tough.
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