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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 | ||||||||
| 31% | 11 | Past perfect verb forms | ||||||
noun • a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past adjective satellite • more than perfect | ||||||||
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TENSES which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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TENSES
Updated: October 10, 2023
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1 | Engaged in forming a perfect or ideal conception of; mentally representing something as perfect or as near to perfect | |
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7 | Used in the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses |
