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

may8 tensed7 tenseless9 tensely10 tenseness9 tenser6 tenses6 tensest7 tensing8

Words that contain TENSE

tensed7 tenser6 tenses6 extense14 intense7 tensely10 tensest7 extenses15 intenser8 pretense10 protense10 subtense10 intensely12 intensest9 pretenses11 protenses11 subtenses11 tenseless9 tenseness9 hypertense18 intenseness11 overintense14 tensenesses11 hyperintense20 superintense14 pretenseless14 intensenesses13 overintensely19

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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