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- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
- become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
- increase the tension on; "tense a rope"
- stretch or force to the limit; "strain the rope"
- taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat'')
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
Similar Words: strain,
tense up
See Also: tight,
agitated,
uneasy
Hyponyms: present,
present tense,
aorist,
past,
past tense,
future,
future tense,
progressive,
progressive tense,
imperfect,
imperfect tense,
continuous tense,
perfective,
perfective tense,
perfect,
perfect tense,
crick,
stretch,
extend
Derivational Morphology:
strain,
tension,
tensity,
tenseness,
tautness,
tensor
Anagrams:
stent,
Enets,
sente,
teens
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