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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“Yes, and pretty tight too, I can tell you,” was the answer.
I came very near to falling on my last hunt--very near indeed--and the noise of my slipping, for my tail was not tight wrapped around the tree, waked the Bandar-log, and they called me most evil names.”
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.
I’m going to shut my eyes tight.
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