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tense

Part of Speech: Noun

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1. Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

Part of Speech: noun

1. 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.

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Alison sat silent in tense anxiety. - "A Prairie Courtship", Harold Bindloss.
There was a tense silence. - "A Damsel in Distress", Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
Craven's tense face relaxed. - "The Shadow of the East", E. M. Hull.

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