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Simple past tense and past participle of tighten.
His grip tightened instinctively around her.
Her throat tightened as she spoke.
He tightened his grip around her.
Gabriel's throat tightened at a second thought.
Her grip tightened on the phone involuntarily and it shot out of her wet hand, bouncing once on the ledge before plunging over the bluff.
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