Tense
Tense is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 5 points
- Letters
- 5
- Syllables
- 1
- How common
- Less common
Meaning of tense
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nounA grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time.
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verbBecome stretched or tense or taut.
“the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;”
Similar: strain
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verbIncrease the tension on.
“alternately relax and tense your calf muscle”
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verbBecome tense, nervous, or uneasy.
“He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room”
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adjectiveIn or of a state of physical or nervous tension.
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adjectivePronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat').
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adjectiveTaut or rigid; stretched tight.
“tense piano strings”
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of tense
Words inside tense
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- seen4
- sent4
- nest4
- teen4
- nets4
- tees4
- tens4
- sene4
- see3
- set3
- ten3
- net3
- sen3
- nee3
- tee3
- ens3
Words that rhyme with tense
- sense
- fence
- hence
- dense
- pence
- spence
- thence
- whence
- defence
- defense
- expense
- intense
- offense
- commence
- dispense
- immense
- incense
- pretense
- suspense
- condense
- commonsense
- nondefense
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