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untighten


Meanings
  • The action of making something looser.

    - "You need to untighten the bolts before you can change the tire."

Rhymes
Words rhyming with untighten
tighten , loosen , ease , lease
Variants
List of all variants of untighten that leads to same result
unmitigated , unmitigatedly , unmitigatedness , unmitigatednesses , disaster , disaster waiting to happen , disasters , disasters waiting to happen , recipe for disaster , recipes for disaster , spell disaster , spelled disaster , spelling disaster , spells disaster , unmitigated disaster , unmitigated disasters , gall , galls , had the gall , has the gall , have the gall , having the gall , sheer gall , unmitigated gall
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

The word 'untighten' is derived from the Old English word 'treowan', which means 'to tighten'. The prefix 'un-' is added to negate the meaning of 'tighten'.


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