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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(241) And looking tense and grim-faced, he walked slowly to the pulpit and read a statement from a small piece of paper.
(242) Rachel sat in tense silence beside the detestable Damian Flint.
(243) The move comes at a tense time for the Los Angeles police department.
(244) Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation.
(245) Humans have no problem in determining that this is the past tense of the verb preach.
(246) A tense atmosphere is easy to create on stage with some sinister music and creepy sound effects.
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(247) Tense, silent, on the chair by the table with its flower bowl and its dish of cracked apples.
(248) Ivor got drunk during the meal, which was slightly tense at one point.
(249) Relations between the two neighbouring states had been tense in recent years because of the Bougainville conflict.
(250) The journey through the mountains went well even though there were a few tense moments when the car skidded.
(251) Guy stood still, glittering eyes narrowed on Isabel for a long, tense minute.
(252) She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion.
(253) Humour, too, can be a way of breaking a tense atmosphere.
(254) In generative phonology, the claim is that, at the abstract level, vowels are simply tense or lax.
(255) Kathy Rooney stood in for Mr Wogan, and I was a bit tense when it came to the real thing.
(256) His closely shaven face was tense and his usually sensuous mouth set in a grim line.
(257) There was a tense confrontation between Allen and the other commissioners.
(258) There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax.
(259) They seem less tense, more even-tempered.
(260) Those are real present tense, and irreplaceable.
(261) Why does tense meeting cause costal region neuralgic?
(262) Always use the present tense of verbs.
(263) Then's now with now's then in tense continuant.
(264) Now, supercritical or super-supercritical firepower generator units are constructed in many places, in order to reverse power tense situation promptly.
(265) Wearing nothing but her underclothing, she outstretched her other smooth arm and lay her warm palm on his tense hands, still gripping the doorknob.
(266) Grammar Limited by person, number, tense, and mood. Used of a verb that can serve as a predicate or the initial element of one.
(267) B. Rewrite the following sentences, using the future perfect continuous tense of the verbs in brackets.
(268) I tried not to tense up, or become obviously wary.
(269) The option to solve the issue as a breakthrough, proposed a new automatic verification method based on formal theory for direction: namely, proof of program correctness based on tense logic.
(270) This paper deals with the tense system of systemic_functional grammar, which is one of the expansion type.
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