Synonym: rigid, strained, taut, tight. Antonym: flabby. Similar words: intense, sense, dense, incense, offense, license, expense, defense. Meaning: [tens] 
n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. v. 1. become stretched or tense or taught 2. increase the tension on 3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy 4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. adj. 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.
n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. v. 1. become stretched or tense or taught 2. increase the tension on 3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy 4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. adj. 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. 
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(121) In looking at childhood photographs, her sullenness, always seeming to be apart, looking rather sour, tense.
(122) Caroline felt riveted to the floor, motionless, unwilling to consciously eavesdrop but tense with curiosity.
(123) Such a thin strange quavering noise, and such a tense awkward atmosphere had built up.
(124) He felt tense too, his muscles bunched hard under his thin shirt as she ran her hands across his shoulders.
(125) Tense soldiers detonated concussion grenades in an effort to disperse the crowds.
(126) Words are exchanged,[http://sentencedict.com/tense.html] and there is a tense moment or two.
(127) There was a tense silence, and then everyone began to laugh.
(128) Mary's problems at work were making her tense and irritable.
(129) This is written in paragraphs explaining in the past tense what has been seen.
(130) Temporal distance is encoded by the past tense, reflecting content time, which is separate from coding time.
(131) On the pitch I had noticed that the players had become a little more tense.
(132) It is a single-elimination tournament, which should provide many tense moments.
(133) His shoulders felt tense and the top of the range hissed as a tear escaped from his eyes.
(134) However, both arguments are spurious, for there is a very loose connection between tense and time.
(135) It was a tense moment but, luckily, he said yes so the seven-part series was under way.
(136) There is a tense contradiction in the use of language in this book.
(137) They drove slowly along the main street, Juliet too tense to see the pretty shops selling antiques and gifts.
(138) I felt a tense atmosphere of anxiousness build between us.
(139) As he pulled into the carport, Doreen appeared at the kitchen window, face tense with worry.
(140) In the tense silence that followed, the boys fidgeted uneasily.
(141) Tense, therefore, can be deictic in as much as it can be used to encode specific temporal relations with respect to the encoder.
(142) If you are tense try some of the natural relaxant products that are available from health food stores, rather than taking drugs.
(143) When you are tense it is hard to relax but that is just what you need to do.
(144) Race relations, cordial when blacks and whites had earlier shared a sense of purpose, grew increasingly tense.
(145) Eddy knows how to write page-turning, tense prose, and whips through big set-piece scenes with gusto.
(146) It must have been a busy day, Trevor; you sound tense.
(147) They stared silently at the impenetrable curtain surrounding the ship, and each face was tense with anxiety.
(148) I emphasize the tense because Congress has the habit of letting itself off the hook when convenient.
(149) The grammatical syllabus concentrates on verb forms, in particular the tense system, and modal verbs.
(150) Faced with this living miscegenation, I had spells of getting all minimalist, which rendered things a bit tense.
More similar words: intense, sense, dense, incense, offense, license, expense, defense, in a sense, make sense, consensus, senseless, tension, extension, intensity, extensive, at the expense of, ostensible, ostensibly, insert, insect, consent, counsel, lens, in secret, response, in season, ensue, counselor, ensure.