LOOSEN Antonyms

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit

• any undertaking that is easy to do

• stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place

• a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps

• tie a cinch around

• make sure of

• get a grip on; get mastery of

• a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

• fasten or fix with a clamp

• impose or inflict forcefully

• a small slip noose made with seizing

• the act of grasping

• hold in a tight grasp

• squeeze together tightly

• cause to be firmly attached

• become fixed or fastened

• attach to

• make tight or tighter

• free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

• free from danger or risk

• not likely to fail or give way

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• financially safe

• get by special effort

• cause to be firmly attached

• assure payment of

• make certain of

• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

• furnish with battens

• become stiff or stiffer

• make stiff or stiffer

• severely restrict in scope or extent