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tauten

tauten verb: to make taut; to taut.

Verb

tauten (third-person singular simple present tautens, present participle tautening, simple past and past participle tautened)

  1. (transitive) To make taut; to taut.
    • Tauten the rope.
  2. (ergative) To become taut.
    • The rope tautened.

tauten meaning in Tamil

tauten in Tamil

கயிறு வகையில் கட்டிறுக்கமாக்கு

Forms of tauten

third-person singular presenttautens
present participletautening
past participletautened
pasttautened

Origin of tauten

From taut + -en.

Words formed from tauten

Questions about tauten

What does tauten mean?
Tauten means to make taut; to taut.
What is tauten in Tamil?
Tauten in Tamil is கயிறு வகையில் கட்டிறுக்கமாக்கு. See Tauten meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tauten?
Tauten is a verb.
What is the past tense of tauten?
The past tense of tauten is tautened.

Words near tauten in the dictionary

  1. taut-line hitches
  2. tautaug
  3. tautaugs
  4. tauted
  5. tautegorical
  6. tauten
  7. tautened
  8. tautener
  9. tauteners
  10. tautening
  11. tautenings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tauten (page history and authors); tauten (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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