Tensed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENSED in dictionary:

VERB:
• TENSE, to make tense
• become tense, typically through anxiety or nervousness
• 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
ADJECTIVE:
• (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
• having inflections to indicate tense

Words related to TENSED

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How to use TENSED in a sentence

• The tensed body relaxed, and the black, stooping over the corpse, helped carry it out.
• Kerry tensed his muscles and groaned impotently feeling his heart beating like a hammer in his breast.
• Yet despite the appearance of calm he was alert, and every muscle and sinew of his body was tensed for instant action.
• By outlining the course of this tendon with the fingers, when it is passively tensed sufficiently to follow its course, one may exclude rupture of the superficial flexor.
• A murderous rage seized him, a lust to rend and destroy, and he sat erect in his chair, his muscles tensed, his blood rioting, his brain reeling.
• Crouching in the shadow of the crate, Astro tensed for the attack.
• Five more age-long minutes elapsed in absolute silence, whilst I peered into the darkness of the night and listened, muscles tensed, for the return of Nayland Smith.
• Under his clear, white skin the muscles tensed and flowed, as he crouched, and approached and retreated warily, looking for an opening.
• Raud tensed himself to jump, aimed carefully, and waited.
• The Dry-towners glared at me and I tensed for the moment when their steady stare would explode into violence.
• Then, breaking the wax with fingers tensed by eagerness, he tore it open.
• In spite of himself, he was startled with its suddenness, and he stood tensed and waiting for the dismal hoots that would tell what ward the fire was in.

Similar words containing TENS without suffix ed

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