Definition of "tautening" []

• Present participle of tauten. (verb)

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• "Standing on the trap, leg-manacled and arm-manacled, the knot against the neck, the black cap drawn, they will drop me down until the momentum of my descending weight is fetched up abruptly short by the tautening of the rope."
• "She felt the humming of the tautening string, hovering on the edge of her consciousness, making her strain toward it. . ."
• "The length of paper also became a variable linea snake-like contracting or tautening as we moved between the burnt saplings."