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Adjective tense has 3 senses
- tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
Antonyms: relaxed, at ease, degage, easygoing, laid-back, mellow, unstrained
- tense - pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
Antonym: lax
- tense - taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"
Antonyms: lax, drooping, droopy, sagging, floppy, loose, slack, loose-jointed, relaxed, tensionless
Noun tense has 1 sense
- tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
--1 is a kind of grammatical category, syntactic category
--1 has particulars: | | present, present tense; aorist; past, past tense; future, future tense; progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense; perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense |
Verb tense has 4 senses
- strain, tense - stretch or force to the limit; "strain the rope"
--1 is one way to tighten
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- tense - increase the tension on; "tense a rope"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- tense, tense up - become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
--3 is one way to change state, turn
Antonyms: relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody's (body part) ----s
- tense, strain, tense up - make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
--4 is one way to affect
Antonyms: relax, unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
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