different between tighten vs ecraseur

English

Etymology

Equivalent to tight +? -en. From Middle English tighten, from Old English tyhtan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ta?.t?n/
• Rhymes: -a?t?n
• Homophones: titan, Titan

Verb

tighten (third-person singular simple present tightens, present participle tightening, simple past and past participle tightened)

1. (transitive) To make tighter.
   • 1760, Francis Fawkes, Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musæus translated into English by a gentleman of Cambridge

     Just where I please, with tighten;d rein / I'll urge thee round the dusty plain.

2. (intransitive) To become tighter.

3. (economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.

4. (economics) To raise short-term interest rates.

Antonyms

• (make tighter): loosen

Derived terms

Related terms

• tight

Translations

Anagrams

• tingeth

English

Alternative forms

• écraseur

Etymology

French écraseur (“crusher”).

Noun

ecraseur (plural ecraseurs)

1. (surgery) A surgical instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a chain to avoid haemorrhage.

Anagrams

• saucerer