tense
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(verb) make tense |
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Synonyms: strain, tense up |
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Related Words: affect, crick, extend, stretch |
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Antonyms: relax |
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(verb) become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" |
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Synonyms: tense up |
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Related Words: change state, turn |
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Antonyms: relax |
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(verb) increase the tension on; "tense a rope" |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(adjective) taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings" |
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Antonyms: lax |
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(adjective) (phonetics) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') |
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Antonyms: lax |
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(adjective) in or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
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Antonyms: relaxed |
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(noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
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Related Words: aorist, continuous tense, future, future tense, grammatical category, imperfect, imperfect tense, past, past tense, perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense, present, present tense, progressive, progressive tense, syntactic category |
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(verb) stretch or force to the limit; "strain the rope" |
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Synonyms: strain |
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Related Words: tighten |
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