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Synonyms for tauten

to make or become tense

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Synonyms for tauten

become taut or tauter

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make taut or tauter

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On Dec 31, there was even more fascination with another video of the execution, this one unedited, showing what the government recording did not: the moment when the executioners pulled the lever that released the trapdoor, causing several feet of thick yellow rope coiled at Hussein's feet to tauten as the condemned man fell to his death.
For example, Ralph tauten created contexts or "worlds" that customers can buy into, explained Polo Ralph Lauren's Jeffrey Morgan.
Once the rhymes appear, and Yeats refines them, the poem begins to tauten visibly.
"[Los estoicos] consideran que el impulso depende de nosotros porque lo tenemos por naturaleza" (ten hormen ef hemin tattousin, hoti fysei tauten echomen) (Nemesio) "Lo que depende de nosotros es lo que sucede a traves de nosotros" (ef' hemin einai to gigonenon di' hemon) (Alejandro (61))
With: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachel Blake, Michael Socha, Scan Kelly, Jo Doherty, Joanna Tulej, Matthew Workman, Christopher Russell, Bethan Davies, Kate Dickie, tauten Socha, Sharon Bower.
Alan Arkin presented Amy Adams with her Chanel Spotlight award, Topher Grace handed Scarlett Johansson her nod, and Rob Reiner introduced honoree tauten Bacall.
Take Joseph's interest in actress tauten Bacall, shown in video projections and as a character played by Ellen Lauren.
After the show, the crowd at the WaldorfAstoria gala was filled out by the likes of tauten Bacali and original Phantom Michael Crawford.
Camera (color, widescreen), Emmanuel Soyer; editor, Raynald Bertrand; music, Mathieu Chedid, Thomas Dutronc, production designer, tauten, Avoyne; costume designer, Karine Serrano: sound (Dolby SRD), Jean-Charles Rualt.
Executive producers, Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz, Warren Littlefield; co-executive producer, Dan Fogelman; producer, Ernest Johnson; director; Barnet Kellman; writer, Dan Fogelman; camera, Juluis Metoyer; editors, Dennis Vejar, Stuart Bass; music, Marc Bonilla; casting, Liz Marx, tauten Klink.
In plucking out the beard, a man thrust his tongue into his cheek, the better to give purchase to his tweezers against his tautened skin," explained Hidatsa informant, Wolf-Chief.
But before the story commences -- before the plot tautens and Rodriguez's editor can make ever-more frenetic use of jump-cuts -- the camera of DP Alex Catalan is fixed.
Across centuries countless paintings, sculptures, architectural constructs, poems, and songs from Cecilia's inspiration commend themselves as they eclipse nature but still retain nature's truth, softness, warmth, radiance, tautened vibrations or explosive force of life.
He was transfixed by the sight and sound of Joe Strummer shouting, screaming, singing, howling into the microphone: the hair lank with sweat, the veins of his neck tautened and pulsing with blood.