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adj. Tightly stretched; taut. See Synonyms at stiff, tight.

adj. In a state of mental or nervous tension.

adj. Characterized by nervous tension or suspense.

adj. Linguistics Enunciated with taut muscles, as the sound (ē) in keen.

v. To make or become tense.

n. Any one of the inflected forms in the conjugation of a verb that indicates the time, such as past, present, or future, as well as the continuance or completion of the action or state.

n. A set of tense forms indicating a particular time: the future tense.

n. Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.

adj. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.

adj. Pulled taut, without any slack.

v. To make or become tense.

n. One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

adj. Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax.

n. Time. See temps.

n. In grammar: Time.

n. One of the forms, or sets of forms, which a verb takes in order to indicate the time of action or of that which is affirmed: extended also to forms indicating the nature of the action as continued, completed, and the like.

Being in a state of tension; stretched until tight; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax: often used figuratively.

To make tense or taut.

v. become tense, nervous, or uneasy

n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

adj. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

adj. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

v. become stretched or tense or taut

v. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

v. increase the tension on

adj. taut or rigid; stretched tight

"Mom backed away, and Grandma sat down again, her expression tense and frightened."

pumped    restive    edgy    highly strung    uptight    nail-biting    suspensive    unrelaxed    pumped-up    wired   

tensed    tenses    tensing   

turn    change state    tighten    change    modify    alter   

stretched    tight    intense    excited    future    tense abdomen    historical tenses    consecution of tenses    at prime tense   

tensal    hypertense   

rigid    high-strung    strung-up    strained   

Spence    cents    commence    commonsense    condense    defence    defense    dense    dispense    expense   

nervous    uneasy    intense    taut    tight    breathless    stiff    depress    wary    indicative