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Crossword-Solution: TENSE 5 letters, 391 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Tense n. 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.
Tense a. Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax;
as, a tense fiber.

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Word Anagrams
TENSE anagram ENTES, NEETS, NETES, SENET, SENTE, STEEN, TEENS, TENES

We have 391 clues for the answer “TENSE”

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"Bear" has a different one than "bore" 1 answer
A nervous rocker is this 1 answer
About to freak out 1 answer
All wired up 1 answer
Anxiety-filled 1 answer
Anxiety-ridden 1 answer
April Wine "Future ___" 1 answer
Brace, in a way 1 answer
Can be past present or future 1 answer
Can be past or present 1 answer
Clenched, say 1 answer
Cliff-hanging 1 answer
Close to cracking 1 answer
Conditional, for one 1 answer
Difference between "put" and "put" 1 answer
Difference between is and was 1 answer
Difference between lead and led 1 answer
Drawn lots? 1 answer
EXPRESSION of time (gram.) 1 answer
English 101 subject 1 answer
Far from loosey-goosey 1 answer
Feature of English, but not Chinese 1 answer
Feeling antsy 1 answer
Feeling jittery 1 answer
Feeling on edge 1 answer
Feeling stressed 1 answer
Feeling the pressure 1 answer
Finding it difficult to relax 1 answer
Form of a verb 1 answer
Form of verb 1 answer
Fraught with anxiety 1 answer
Full of anxiety 1 answer
Full of suspense 1 answer
Future perfect, e.g. 1 answer
Future perfect, for example 1 answer
Future perfect, for one 1 answer
Future, e.g. 1 answer
Future, for example. 1 answer
Future, for instance. 1 answer
Future, for one 1 answer
Geddy Lee's "The Present ___" 1 answer
Grammar lesson topic 1 answer
Grammatical time setter 1 answer
Hardly at ease 1 answer
Hardly chill 1 answer
Imperfect or past 1 answer
Imperfect, e.g. 1 answer
In a nervous state 1 answer
In a state of strain. 1 answer
In need of a back rub, say 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble TENSE5-letter words that start with T5-letter words that end in E5-letter words containing EN5-letter words containing SE5-letter words with T and E

Sentences with TENSE (5)

For a few seconds the wayfarer stood with that tense stillness which signifies itself to be not the end but merely the suspension, of a previous motion.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The signal rockets burst and rained their sparks through the night and vanished, and the spirit of all those watching batteries rose to a tense expectation.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been {bum}med into a state of {tense}ness just short of rupture.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Instantly I sprang toward it to wrench it open again, for something in the uncanny movement of the thing and the tense and almost palpable silence of the chamber seemed to portend a lurking evil lying hidden in this rock-bound chamber within the bowels of the Golden Cliffs.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Why, it is just like being the past tense of the compound reflexive adverbial incandescent hypodermic irregular accusative Noun of Multitude; which is father to the expression which the grammarians call Verb.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with TENSE (3)

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long …
Thomas Mann Death in Venice and Other Tales
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
John Green The Fault in Our Stars
Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived, or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse.” To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: “ ’Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ballo be spelt with adouble L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Cheirou and Beltiou…
Michel de Montaigne The Complete Essays
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 823 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).