Definition for
tense
– 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
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.
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