SLACKENED Antonyms

• positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger

• held up by braces or buttresses

• firmly closed or secured

• furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike

• fastened with strings or cords

• given added strength or support

• (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

• given added strength or support

• pulled or drawn tight

• subjected to great tension; stretched tight

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• 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

• become taut or tauter

• make taut or tauter

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit