n.a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

v.

become stretched or tense or taught

"the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed"

同義詞：strain

increase the tension on

"alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"

become tense, nervous, or uneasy

"He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"

同義詞：tense up

cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

"he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up"

同義詞：straintense up

Tenses of insomnia epidemiology
On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs
On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs
On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs
Tenses Responses to Sudden Length in Stimulated Frog Muscles Fibers Near Slack Length
Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
Rules vs. analogy in English past tenses: a computational/experimental study
Learning the past tenses of English verbs: Implicit rules or parallel distributed processing?
Chapter 3. Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English