noun. A property of verbs in which the time of the action or state, as well as its continuance or completion, is indicated or expressed.

noun. A category or set of verb forms that indicate or express the time, such as past, present, or future, of the action or state.

Being in a state of tension; stretched until tight; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax: often used figuratively.

To make tense or taut.

noun. Time. See temps.

noun. In grammar: Time.

noun. One of the forms, or sets of forms, which a verb takes in order to indicate the time of action or of that which is affirmed: extended also to forms indicating the nature of the action as continued, completed, and the like.

adjective. Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax.

noun. 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.

noun. Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.

adjective. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.

adjective. Pulled taut, without any slack.

verb. To make or become tense.

verb. become tense, nervous, or uneasy

noun. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

adjective. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

adjective. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

verb. become stretched or tense or taut

verb. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

verb. increase the tension on

adjective. taut or rigid; stretched tight

"Mom backed away, and Grandma sat down again, her expression tense and frightened."

at prime tense  consecution of tenses  excited  future  historical tenses  

antsy  aroused  cliff-hanging  constricted  edgy  

hypertense  tensal  

alter  change  change state  modify  tighten  

Spence  cents  commence  commonsense  condense  

Time  appearance  author  ball  breathless  

accented  agitated  all-overish  alveolar  antsy  

tensed  tenses  tensing