All 4 Uses
taut
in
The Road, by McCarthy
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- The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires.†
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- The wall beyond held a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and caved with their taut grins and shrunken eyes.†
- Taut face and hollow eyes.†
- He ran the knot down the thread and pulled it taut and cut off the silk with the scissors from the kit and looked at the boy.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)