Verb tauten has 2 senses
  1. tauten, firm - become taut or tauter; "Yur muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"
    --1 is one way to tighten
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  2. tauten, firm - make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"
    --2 is one way to tighten, fasten
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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