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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 | ||||||||
| 32% | 7 | Stressed-stressed foot | ||||||
noun • a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | ||||||||
| 32% | 11 | Stressed-unstressed-stressed syllable pattern | ||||||
noun • A metrical foot in ancient Greek or Latin consisting of two short syllables surrounding one long one (e.g. amāta). • A metrical foot in modern prosody, consisting of three syllables, the middle one of which is stressed (e.g. Jamaica). | ||||||||
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TENSEST which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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TENSEST
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