tense

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
• become stretched or tense or taut
• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
• increase the tension on
• become tense, nervous, or uneasy
• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ´beat´)
• taut or rigid
• 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
• Stretched tightly

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