Word Meaning

tensed definition and meaning

n. 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.
a. Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

Crossword clues for tensed

- Anxious
- Anxious about being sent off east
- Anxious to flex muscles
- Become rigid
- Brace (oneself)
- Cliffhanging
- Drawn taut
- Emotionally strained
- Flex (muscles)
- Highly strung
- In a state of mental strain
- Nerve-wracking grammatical form
- On edge
- On edge at time of writing
- Strain, ... up
- Strained
- Stressed it may be present
- Stressed verb form
- Stretched tight
- Stretched tight or rigid
- Taut
- Teens made on edge
- Tighten
- Tighten (muscles)
- Under stress
- Uptight
- verbs subjects
- Often sedan parts stiffened 
- Tautened
- Tightened