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tense
English
- 🔊 taut or rigid“tense piano strings”
- 🔊 pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
- 🔊 in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- 🔊 a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- 🔊 cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious“he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up”
- 🔊 become tense, nervous, or uneasy“He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room”
- 🔊 increase the tension on“alternately relax and tense your calf muscle”
- 🔊 become stretched or tense or taut“the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed”
Spanish
- 🔊 tiempo tense
- 🔊 tiempo verbal tense
- 🔊 tensar to tense
- 🔊 tiesto tense, taut
- 🔊 tirante tense, tight
- 🔊 tenso tense, strained, taut, tensed