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UK
/tˈaɪtnəs/
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[ US /ˈtaɪtnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈtaɪtnəs/ ]
NOUN
- lack of movement or room for movement
- a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
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a tight feeling in some part of the body
he felt a constriction in her chest
emotion caused a constriction of his throat
she felt an alarming tightness in her chest - the spatial property of being crowded together
- extreme stinginess
How To Use tightness In A Sentence
- Heart disease often shows itself first as pain or tightness in the chest.
- The tightness of the show was spoilt this evening somewhat by a couple of idiots who decided to pick up on the word 'juggler' and shout it out just as Amstell was coming to a big pay-off line. Edinburgh Fringe 2007: Simon Amstell - No Self, Pleasance Courtyard, 22.30
- To "plim" up implies a certain amount of enlargement, and consequent tightness or firmness. The Life of the Fields
- In developing countries technical standards still remain limiting factors for the application of methods that require special apparatus and equipment or, for example, above-average gastightness of storage structures. 10. Integrated pest management
- Savoury, angular cabernet tannins combined with structural tightness induce a perception of inkiness that should mellow with maturity.
- It causes wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath and coughing. The Sun
- It's non-clogging, which is brill for blemish-prone skins, there's no tightness post-cleanse and it's fragrance-free. Times, Sunday Times
- For all its water-tightness and lack of style, all the stuff I tried to read, passed through MSOffice grammar check without a hitch!
- However, after inhalation of three consecutive doses from a new diskus, he immediately complained of chest tightness and feeling of distress that were treated with oral diphenhydramine and inhaled bronchodilator at home. Allegic Reactions from Lactose in Dry Powder Asthma Inhalers
- Most of the bupleurum formulas associated with the various permutations of Lesser Yang stage disease include the symptom of tightness and fullness of the chest.