noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
tighten
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As the police visibly tighten the noose around the mansion, the guerrillas respond with rhetoric and warning bursts of gunfire.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The U.S. tightened the economic noose around the dictatorship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it is also the reality that stays my hand from the noose and trap when Kasparov speaks.
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He felt as if a noose had slipped around his neck.
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He trussed himself up, with a noose round his neck, then handcuffed himself.
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I could see a noose had been thrown round my neck I'd maybe never get free from.
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Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose .
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She found some rope in the corner tossed it over a beam, and made a noose in the other end.
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Then, alone in his dressing room, he cheerfully prepared a noose with which to hang himself.
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They had slid his noose from their necks and freed themselves of him.