• tight-fitting clothes

• tight knot

• close bond, close links, close ties, tight bond

• close friendship, intimacy

• close coupling, tight coupling

• close contest, close fight

• close connection, intimate connection, marriage, rapport

• strict alphabetical order

• close connection

• close co-operation

• marriage

• to gear

• close ties with sg

• to be in close communication with one another

• close vote

• in a proper sense, in the full sense of the word, in the literal sense, in the proper sense of the word, in the strict sense of the word, in the strictest sense of the word, literally, technically speaking

• proper, unmitigated

• they were just starving

• close, tautly, tightly

• to be cramped for room, to feel cramped for room

• to hold fast