Definition of tense

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Tense (a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber..

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Deepen :: Deepen (v. t.) To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom..
Glare :: Glare (v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay..
Reality :: Reality (n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea..
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson..
Preteritive :: Preteritive (a.) Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs..
Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease..
Absinthium :: Absinthium (n.) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood..
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror..
Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. i.) To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite..
Art :: Art () The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style..
Tensor :: Tensor (n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense..
Am :: Am () The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be..
Lemon :: Lemon (n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet..
Phleum :: Phleum (n.) A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass..
Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To strain; to make tense.
Quoth :: Quoth (v. t.) Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he..
Irradiation :: Irradiation (n.) The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, esp. when a little out of focus..
Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Preterit :: Preterit (a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
Pretense :: Pretense (n.) Alt. of Pretenc.
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