How To Tighten Your Core

The meaning of tighten is to make tight or tighter. How to use tighten in a sentence. To make or become tight or tighter.

See examples of tighten used in a sentence. To become tighter or to make something become tighter, firmer, or less easy to move: 3 days agoverb tighten (third-person singular simple present tightens, present participle tightening, simple past and past participle tightened) (transitive) to make tighter.

Idioms tighten one's belt, to respond to difficult times by reducing one's spending: The family had to tighten their belts so the children could go to college. To tighten means to make something more fixed, secure or rigid by causing its parts to come closer or by reducing slack.

Definition of tighten verb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary. To make or become tight or tighter. When you tighten a screw, nut, or other device, you turn it or move it so that it is more firmly in place or holds something more firmly.

I used my thumbnail to tighten the screw on my lamp.