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Significados de tauten en inglés

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Make taut or tauter.

        tensar
        Uso de tauten en inglés
        1
        Those systems use hydraulics or electromagnetic fluids to soften or tauten the ride.
        Wired
        2
        All heard the bow-strings tauten, until Vlad's raised hand halted them.
        Vlad. The Last Confession
        3
        As they walked, he felt her shoulders and biceps tauten slightly.
        Frozen Heat
        4
        She felt the muscles in his buttocks and thighs tauten.
        Eve of darkness
        5
        He pulled up, felt the rope grow slack, then tauten as he let go.
        Hell House
        6
        Around the girl he drew his right arm; she felt his muscles tauten as he clasped her to him.
        Darkness and Dawn
        7
        He came back and stood in front of me with the weapon, deliberately enough for me to tauten up.
        Woken furies
        8
        Speak to me when you feel it coming; I don't want it to tauten you up with a jerk.
        Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
        9
        His body tautened against the straps holding it in the acceleration couch.
        Pushbutton War
        10
        She placed her hands on her slim hips and tautened her figure.
        Erik Dorn
        11
        We had just about tautened the tow-line when Alan's voice rang out.
        Rídan the Devil, and Other Stories / 1899
        12
        Was bracing for impact when the rope tautened, snapping me around wildly.
        Bones on Ice
        13
        His diaphragm tautened with the sharp pain of long-unused muscles, and he sneezed.
        The Sky Is Falling
        14
        His face tautened and his arms lay limp as he read through it.
        Victory
        15
        The rope tautened, and there was a sharp crack from below.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917
        16
        And then he was rigid, the shoulder muscles beneath his tunic tautening visibly.
        Foundation and Empire
        Translations for tauten
        Tauten a través del tiempo