tightening
noun B2- The act or process of making more tight.
Plural tightenings
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On these his eager, questioning eyes were fixed, and I saw on his keen, alert face that tightening of the lips, that quiver of the nostrils, and concentration of the heavy, tufted brows which I knew so well.
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