TENSE
- to make taut (fully stretched) [v TENSED, TENSING, TENSES] / taut (fully stretched) [adj TENSER, TENSEST]
- taut; rigid
- emotionally strained
- to make or become tense
- the inflected form of a verb indicating time of an action or state
- taut (fully stretched, so as not to be slack) [adj TENSER, TENSEST] : TENSELY [adv] / to make tense [v TENSED, TENSES, TENSING]