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"Firmly fixed"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (TIGHT).
Definitions
Fitting closely; not loose.
Word origin
From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Used in a sentence
“a tight sponge; a tight knot”
“Pull your seatbelts tight before takeoff.”
“tight control on a situation”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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