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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



... great thing for Fleeming to make, even thus late, the acquaintance of his father; but the harrowing pathos of such scenes consumed him. In a life of tense intellectual effort, a certain smoothness of emotional tenor were to be desired; or we burn the candle at both ends. Dr. Bell perceived the evil that was being done; he pressed Mrs. Jenkin to restrain her husband from ...
— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson
... glanced significantly at the young librarian, who was leaning upon the counter in a tense, keyhole position, with his private ear turned somewhat ostentatiously ...
— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens
... and laughing and warm with a sweet friendliness, but they crashed through the room like the breath of a swarm of furies. Andrew Sevier's face went white and drawn on the instant, and every muscle in his body stiffened to a tense rigidity. His dark eyes narrowed themselves to slits and ...
— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess
... watch aloft. Henry sat tense at the wireless, waiting to catch any possible message, and Roy and Willie scrambled cautiously down to their favorite observation post in the pines. On came the transports, riding the waves in a stately column; yet the little house seemed ...
— The Secret Wireless - or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss
... rope leading from the ship, which had been drawn very tense, was suddenly slacked on board the ship, and the middle of it fell ...
— Rollo in London • Jacob Abbott


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