| TENS | a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
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| TENS | make tense |
| TENS | become tense or tenser |
| TENS | increase the tension on |
| TENS | stretch or force to the limit |
| TENS | taut or rigid |
| TENS | (phonetics) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') |
| TENS | in or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
| TENS | a system of tenses used in a particular language |
| TENS | make tense |
| TENS | become tense or tenser |
| TENS | having inflections to indicate tense |