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A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
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Become stretched or tense or taut The bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed The rope strained when the weight was attached |
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Increase the tension on Alternately relax and tense your calf muscle Tense the rope manually before tensing the spring |
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Become tense, nervous, or uneasy He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room |
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Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious He got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up |
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In or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
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Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') |
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Taut or rigid Stretched tight Tense piano strings |
| adj | tense, aroused, wound up, cliff-hanging, suspenseful, suspensive, nail-biting, drawn, taut, edgy, high-strung, highly strung, in suspense, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight, electric, isotonic, nervous, strained, unrelaxed, pumped-up, pumped up, pumped, wired, agitated, uneasy |
| adj | tense, constricted |
| adj | tense, overstrung, taut, tight, tight |
| noun | grammatical category, syntactic category
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| verb | strain, tighten |
| verb | change, alter, modify |
| verb | tense up, change state, turn |
| verb | strain, tense up, affect |