Tense

What do we mean by tense?

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. noun

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

To make tense or taut.

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. noun

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

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. noun

Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. adjective

Pulled taut, without any slack. adjective

To make or become tense. verb

Become tense, nervous, or uneasy verb

A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time noun

In or of a state of physical or nervous tension adjective

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

Become stretched or tense or taut verb

Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious verb

Increase the tension on verb

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

(grammar) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.

Being nervous; stiff Urban Dictionary

When something is either amazing or something is really bad. Urban Dictionary

Not wanting to do fun stuff Urban Dictionary

Short for intense. Also meaning very extreme. Urban Dictionary

Porco Tensing, is a meme exclamation, originated from the video "Pingu sottotitolato (di nuovo)" where a portion from a Pingu episode is subtitled in italian. Being Pingu language Gibberish the subtitles are obviously fake, and made funny Porco means pig and it's often used in blasphemy. Tensing is the italian name for the Dragon Ball character Tenshinhan. Urban Dictionary

Tensing.. when a man is on top of a girl, and the girl is screaming.. Urban Dictionary

The form of a verb referring to "after sex." Urban Dictionary

The term used for someone who is cranky after he / she has been dealing with money Urban Dictionary

A sound change that Americans invented to make British infiltrators easier to detect. Urban Dictionary

Euphemism for going on a Tinder date. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to tense:
tense, sense, terse, tease, dense, lense, cense, mense, tens, tenge, tene, pense, tenue, hense, tese, ense, tenne, tenso, tente, temse, bense, tende, rense, tesse, tinse, tensa.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tense:
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Words that rhyme with tense:
sense, hence, fence, defense, intense, commence, defence, dispense, dense, expense, immense, offense, recompense, pretense, incense, suspense, whence, condense, commonsense, frankincense, pence, lense, common sense, thence, cense, spence, flense, make sense, mense, in a sense, cents, on the fence, pense, antisense, picket fence, sixth sense, hense, spens, horse sense, good sense, bence, lobbying expense, ferenc, civil defense, auditory sense, moral sense, virginia fence, line of defense, sunk fence, capital offense, active air defense, visual sense, at any expense, chemical defense, deliberate defense, in suspense, incidental expense, air defense, deliberate defence, labyrinthine sense, worm fence, medical expense, department of defense, road sense, snake fence, line of defence, personal expense, business expense, hasty defence, minor expense, trade expense, chemical defence, organization expense, word sense, muscle sense, passive air defense, peacock flower fence, biological warfare defense, hasty defense, misrepresents, moving expense, rail fence, statutory offense, nondefense, regulatory offense, secretary of defense, non-nonsense, nunsense.

Adjectives that are often used to describe tense:
present, past, future, perfect, more, imperfect, less, simple, progressive, continuous, conditional, pluperfect, aorist, preterite, correct, singular, wrong, passive, indefinite, indicative, pretty, grammatical, preterit, verbal, subjunctive, irregular, unmarked, plural, historic, habitual, verb, perfective, imperative, stomach, preterperfect, periphrastic, abdomen, timeless, morphological, narrative, relaxed, anxious.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tense:
situation, silence, atmosphere, form, moment, muscles, forms, moments, marker, situations, relations, verbs, relationship, voice, system, aspect, days, verb, face, excitement, period, markers, body, expression, logic, feeling, expectation, vowels, state, morpheme, meeting, nerves, suffix, scene, expectancy, faces, vowel, minutes, mood, look, drama, struggle, whisper, confrontation, ascites, hours, negotiations, pause, anxiety, features, relationships, climate, inflection, muscle, morphology, formation, shoulders, environment, anticipation, fingers, stillness, smile, months, usage, standoff, weeks, distinctions, sentences, attitude, endings, posture, suffixes, operators, seconds, air, strain, circumstances, emotion, conversation, sign, feelings, sequence, shifts.

Words that sound like tense:
tense, tens, dense, tons, tins, tonnes, tuns, timss, ten, tunes, tennis, teens, towns, tenth, tents, tones, dunce, tess, dence, thames, tans, tes, toons, tines, tenis, tensed, tenn, tains, tenths, tench, tenesse, tenser, tena, tenny, tmz, tna, tensor, tenna, teno, tenney, tynes, tenno, tennie, townes, tanz, teni, tenne, tenace, tenso, tiens, hence, hense, dance, dens, whence, danse, denz, ton, tin, tongues, tonne, tims, tun, tints, tus, tinny, tings, tums, tiss, tuss, timbs, tunny, tous, tems, tten, tys, tunney, tinnie, timms, tinney, tinch, tungs, tinn, tonna, tinh, tyn, tunna, tonous, tonneau, ttis, pten, tonno, ptin, tyny, ptis, tyms, dones, dins, chinse, attonce.