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taut
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taut
Chiefly nautical in good order; neat


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Face packs are also affected to increase circulation as well as tauten and cleanse the complete face.
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.
P Harold Nicolson, who wrote in his dairy after an air raid: “I am nerveless, and yet I am conscious that when I hear a motor in the empty streets I tauten myself lest it be a bomb screaming towards me.
 
 
 
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