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a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" increase the tension on; "tense a rope" taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings" overstrung, taut pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat'') constricted in or of a state of physical or nervous tension aroused, cliff-hanging, drawn, edgy, electric, isotonic, nervous, strained, unrelaxed, pumped-up(a) stretch or force to the limit; "strain the rope" |
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