1. • noun - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
   • verb - become stretched or tense or taut
   • verb - increase the tension on
   • verb - become tense, nervous, or uneasy
   • verb - cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
   • adj - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
   • adj - pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
   • adj - taut or rigid
2. • Tightly stretched; taut.
   • In a state of mental or nervous tension.
   • Characterized by nervous tension or suspense.
   • Enunciated with taut muscles, as the sound (t).
   • Grammar.
   • Any one of the inflected forms in the conjugation of a verb that indicates the time, such as past, present, or future, as well as the continuance or completion of the action or state.
   • A set of tense forms indicating a particular time: the future tense.
3. • adj - fully stretched, so as not to be slack
   • v - to bring together in intricate confusion

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