SLOKENED Antonyms

• pressed tightly together

• reduced in volume by pressure

• flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

• drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically

• especially tense; especially in some dialects

• firmly closed or secured

• furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike

• fastened with strings or cords

• securely placed or fastened or set

• (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value

• fixed and unmoving

• incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"

• given added strength or support

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

• 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