Tense is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make tense
• become tense, typically through anxiety or nervousness
• become stretched or tense or taut
• increase the tension on
• become tense, nervous, or uneasy
• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
• make or become tense
• make (a muscle or one's body) tight or rigid
NOUN:
• a set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time (and sometimes also the continuance or completeness) of the action in relation to the time of the utterance
• 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; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
• form of a verb showing the time of action
ADJECTIVE:
• taut
• (especially of a muscle) stretched tight or rigid
• (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles stretched tight.
• unable to relax because of nervousness, anxiety, or stimulation
• causing or characterized by anxiety and nervousness
• emotionally strained
• Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
• 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; stretched tight

Words related to TENSE

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How to use TENSE in a sentence

• Yet from the thin tense lips above him there came no response.
• At the same time he told himself he would not entirely lose that tense sensation around the region of his heart until they were actually off.
• The muscles along his brown cheeks set hard and tense.
• He could not see the figure before him, but he knew that it was tense and waiting.
• Her eyes were closed, and her lips were tense and gray.
• The crowd in the gallery leaned forward, tense and silent.
• Then he returned to the tense body, so strangely thin and wet, and removed saddle and bridle.
• At the club women dressed in all the extremes of fashion, laughed and chatted or grew tense and strained as they exchanged their cards.
• What he read was a statement, at once tense and whimsical, of the predicament of the writer.
• The arm was uplifted and outstretched, tense and motionless.
• It is impossible for me to picture the tense excitement which appeared on every face, as he made his way to the bar.
• I still crouched in the corner, but I was tense in every muscle, like a wild cat about to spring.
• Taggart was drinking when Calumet reached his side, and Dade stood tense, awaiting the expected clash.
• The resonance form, kept firm and tense, must adapt itself with the utmost freedom to the thought of every tone, and with it, to the breath.
• For crying, like laughter, has the physiological effect of producing a relaxation of tense nerves.
• The driver was crouching forward over the wheel, tense and motionless.
• Little by little the tense form beneath the blankets relaxed.
• They seemed to move in a tense dream, their eyes turning neither to right nor left, and the whole of them bent on the one idea of their dear achievement.
• Between the steps, the dancers would stand in this strained, tense position, then move forward a few inches, and so on around the circle.
• In the end, her horror faded, and she saw him as through a mist bending above her, grim and tense and silent, controlling her as it were from an immense distance.
• Then he suddenly straightened himself and stood tense.
• His face was terrible, his body tense as though controlled by tight-strung wires.
• And Judas rises abruptly with jaw set and eye tense, and goes out into the blackest night the clouds ever shut in.
• The music of the present tense has the presentation of more accent than the best intention multiplies.
• Every muscle tense, she sat there for a while, fearful that he could hear her heart beating.
• He sat in the back of the hall, tense, alert, nervous.

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