Word Meaning

Meaning of tenses

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

Crossword clue for tenses

- Anxious
- Anxious about being sent off east
- Anxious to flex muscles
- Become rigid
- Brace (oneself)
- Cliffhanging
- Contract specifies time for activity
- Drawn taut
- Emotionally strained
- Flex (muscles)
- Highly strung
- In a state of mental strain
- Kitten seems somewhat anxious
- Nerve-wracking grammatical form
- On edge
- On edge at time of writing
- On edge of verb form
- Rigid
- 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
- Gets stressed
- Increases the strain of past, present and future
- Linguist ultimately made sense of verb forms
- Stiffens
- Stiffens in past, present and future
- Strains
- Strains, ... up
- Tightens (muscles)