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adjective • in or of a state of physical or nervous tension • pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') • taut or rigid; stretched tight noun • a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time verb • become stretched or tense or taut • increase the tension on • become tense, nervous, or uneasy • cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | ||||
| 36% | 10 | Engaged in forming a perfect or ideal conception of; mentally representing something as perfect or as near to perfect | ||
verb • consider or render as ideal • form ideals | ||||
| 24% | 14 | The adverb form of a term that defines a perfect or near-perfect efficiency process. | ||
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TENSE which was last seen in the Telegraph Cross Atlantic crossword.
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TENSE
Updated: December 27, 2025
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