tightly
/ˈtaɪtli/ adverb B1- In a tight manner. · tightly clenched fingers
- Curtly in a way that suggests anger or other intense emotion is being contained.
Comparative tightlier · Superlative tightliest
From the library
But slumber holds me tightly till I waken in the dawn,
Then, holding tightly to the carpet-bag which contained “all her worldly goods,” she followed him into the house.
Anne, sitting mutely on the ottoman, with her hands clasped tightly in her lap, stared at Mrs.
When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.
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