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What does tauten mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To make taut.
  2. (ergative) To become taut.
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The sinews tauten a lot, but not to the extent of rendering the suspension redundant.
Such flaps, known as tension flaps, are used to tauten the sheet by means of tension cords or similar devices.
In thermoforming operations, we often rely on recoil in the sheet to tauten the slack caused by the sheet bowing.
Avocado oil and liposomes from soy lecithin protect from premature wrinkles and tauten the skin.
The film is tauten like the skin of a drum, getting a total plane surface, impossible to succeed with a glass mirror.
Various methods were tried in the early days to tauten and strengthen the fabric.

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