tight
/taɪt/ adverb B2- Firmly, so as not to come loose easily. · Hold on tight to the rope.
- Soundly. · Good night, sleep tight.
Comparative tighter · Superlative tightest
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“If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place.
“Yes, and pretty tight too, I can tell you,” was the answer.
But the Tin Woodman caught the dog in his arms and held him tight, while he called to the mice, “Come back!
Matthew was not looking at her and would not have seen what she was really like if he had been, but an ordinary observer would have seen this: A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.
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