1 with the muscles in your body or part of your body stretched tight and stiff: --
3 in a way that is nervous or anxious: --
He was embarrassed and replied tensely to the question.
While listening, he leans forward tensely, with his hands clasped below his knees like a prizefighter waiting in his corner for the bell...
He removes his clothes and tensely waits for her.
In these last four digital projections, a large glass globe seesaws tensely back and forth over a central fulcrum.
The issue is debated tensely in the profession and feelings run high on both sides of the argument.
I am simply piecing together the evidence that there is to show that the opposition to this scheme is universal and tensely felt.
Not only that, its use pollutes the atmosphere in tensely.
A separate unit houses another motor, across which four strips of oxidised 35 mm film are tensely looped.
