tensing

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English

Definitions

verb

(grammar) To apply a tense to.“tensing a verb”

verb

To make or become tense.

noun

The act of making something tense.“tensings of the muscles”

Related words

Synonyms

uptight tight suspenseful taut suspensive tense up strain strained pumped up wired overstrung restive high-strung nervy electric jumpy

Rhymes

commencing dispensing fencing condensing flensing expensing censing rensing bensing chen sung

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