All loose antonyms

verb loose

• infix — to fix, fasten, or drive in: He infixed the fatal spear.
• blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
• lopper — a person or thing that lops.
• vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
• crisped — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
• border — The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
• furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• giftwrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
• disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
• immobilise — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
• imbed — embed.
• flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
• walled — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
• pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
• pinion — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• muddied — abounding in or covered with mud.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
• double up — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
• give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• hang in — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
• rucked — a fold or wrinkle; crease.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• cohere — If the different elements of a piece of writing, a piece of music, or a set of ideas cohere, they fit together well so that they form a united whole.
• stay put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• demark — to remove all trace of (a person or thing)
• fly off the handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
• bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
• enfetter — Restrain (someone) with shackles.
• team up with — join forces with
• twitch — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
• put to death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
• tether — a rope, chain, or the like, by which an animal is fastened to a fixed object so as to limit its range of movement.
• caulk — If you caulk something such as a boat, you fill small cracks in its surface in order to prevent it from leaking.
• braze — to decorate with, make like, or make of brass
• pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
• clutch — If you clutch at something or clutch something, you hold it tightly, usually because you are afraid or anxious.
• clasp — If you clasp someone or something, you hold them tightly in your hands or arms.
• cording — a type of corded material, esp when used as a decorative trimming
• whacking — large.
• bundle up — If you bundle up a mass of things, you make them into a bundle by gathering or tying them together.
• entrammel — To hamper by entangling.
• indenturing — Present participle of indenture.
• stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
• rivet — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
• shut — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.