0 present participle of tense
1 If you or your muscles tense, your muscles become stiff and tight because you are frightened or nervous, or are preparing yourself to do something:
There are others where in certain circumstances (marked tensing, for instance) finiteness cannot be attributed to non-verbal predicators.
Her long-standing habit of tensing the lower back muscles was too ingrained for her to develop strength in her lower abdomen.
We stop ourselves from expressing a feeling by tensing the muscles that oppose the movement that would express the feeling.
Place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicing, fronting, raising, rounding and tensing, where applicable, can bond or dissociate norms.
They accompany overall tensing of the limbs, clenching the fists, or other spasmodic movements.
The two dictators avoided tensing the rope too much not only because they professed a sort of mutual admiration.
This paper, however, will limit the discussion to the postlexical application of the tensing rule between phonological words, and after a lenis obstruent.
For example, anger often motivates the instantaneous production of an angry face or the tensing of arm and leg muscles.
A noun refers to a person, animal or thing. Some examples are:
