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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   tauten
       v 1: become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you
            exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened" [syn: tauten,
            firm]
       2: make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope" [syn: tauten, firm]