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Definition of tense
- 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
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
| Language Translations: | |||
| Afrikaans: tyd | Dutch: tijd | ||
| Finnish: aikamuoto | French: temps | ||
| German: Zeit | Icelandic: tíð | ||
| Italian: tempo | Japanese: 時制 | ||
| Polish: czas | Spanish: tiempo | ||
| Swedish: tempus | |||
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