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Tense   /tɛns/   Listen
Tense

adjective
1.
In or of a state of physical or nervous tension.
2.
Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in 'beat').
3.
Taut or rigid; stretched tight.
noun
1.
A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time.
verb
1.
Become stretched or tense or taut.  Synonym: strain.  "The rope strained when the weight was attached"
2.
Increase the tension on.  "Tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
3.
Become tense, nervous, or uneasy.  Synonym: tense up.
4.
Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious.  Synonyms: strain, tense up.



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"Tense" Quotes from Famous Books



... The atmosphere became tense, nerve-cracking. Phobar's eyes ached with the intensity of his stare. What ...
— Raiders of the Universes • Donald Wandrei
... fifth tee I was last up. I'd begun waggling as usual, body swaying, shoulders rigid, muscles tense, dreading to swing and wondering whether the result would be a schlaff or a top, when—well, I simply cannot describe the sensation. Something came over me; I don't know what. As if someone had ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford
... embarrass the guest, for in Chichikov's face there dawned a sort of tense expression, and it reddened as though its owner were striving to express something not easy to put into words. True enough, Manilov was now destined to hear such strange and unexpected things as never before had ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... may be said, that [Greek: en] is in the former part of the sentence, and therefore might have been repeated in the latter part, which is the converse of it, though it might not be exactly the proper tense. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 • Various
... phrases in his mind needs help. He needs a Socrates who will separate the words, cross-examine him until he has defined them, and made words the names of ideas. Made them mean a particular object and nothing else. For these tense syllables have got themselves connected in his mind by primitive association, and are bundled together by his memories of Christmas, his indignation as a conservative, and his thrills as the heir to a revolutionary tradition. Sometimes the snarl is too huge and ancient for quick ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann


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