tighten up

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Verb1.tighten up - restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"
constrain, stiffen, tighten
confine, limit, throttle, trammel, restrain, restrict, bound - place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
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Translations

w>tighten up

vi
= tighten VI
(in discipline) → strenger werden, härter durchgreifen; they’ve tightened up on security → sie haben die Sicherheitsvorkehrungen verschärft
vt sep
= tighten VT a
organization, procedure → straffen; discipline, controls → verschärfen
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The customer tried to squeeze the slide in a bench vise in order to tighten up the horizontal or sine play.
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