taut

a taut movie script.

the fabric stays taut without adhesive.

nerves taut with anxiety.

a taut expression on her face

the men's taut relationship fixes your attention.

a taut text of only a hundred and twenty pages.

This misshapen ogrelike brute has taut flesh with a claylike texture.

she was on edge, her nerves taut, and to cap it all, she could feel the beginnings of a headache.

An MTrP is a hyperirritable spot in a taut band of skeletal muscle fibers with characteristics related to central sensitization in the spinal cord.