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tensing

/tens/US // tɛns //UK // (tɛns) //

绷紧,紧张,紧绷,紧张的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    tens·er, tens·est.

    • : stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid.
    • : in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
    • : characterized by a strain upon the nerves or feelings: a tense moment.
    • : Phonetics. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles; narrow. Compare lax.
  1. 1

    tensed, tens·ing.

    • : to make or become tense.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incontraction
Synonyms
decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌deflation通货紧缩,通缩,通货收缩,通货缩减recession衰退期,衰退,不景气,经济衰退reduction减少,削减,缩减,降低shrinkage缩水,缩减,缩水率,萎缩abbreviation缩略语,缩略词,缩略,简称abridgment节略,删节,节选,节略语compression压缩,压缩器,压缩率,压缩空气condensation凝结,冷凝,凝结物,凝结水condensing冷凝,冷凝式,冷凝式的confinement囚禁,拘禁,监禁,拘束constriction压迫,收缩,压迫感,缩减curtailment缩减,缩减开支,削减,缩水diminution缩减,缩水,减弱,减少dwindling逐渐减少,逐渐减少的,越来越少,越来越少的elision辩解,辩才,辩称,延伸evaporation挥发,蒸发,气化,蒸发作用lessening减轻,减弱,减缓,减少narrowing狭窄化,缩小,狭窄的,缩窄omission遗漏,疏漏,不作为,疏忽receding减退,减退的,退行,退缩reducing减少,降低,削减,减少了shrinking缩减,缩水,萎缩,收缩tightening收紧,紧缩,收缩,紧固withdrawal撤回,退出,撤出,撤销abbreviating缩略语,缩略词,缩略,缩略号abridging删节,删减,缩减,缩略语confining拘束的,拘束,拘束性的,拘拘束束curtailing缩减,削减,缩减的,缩减开支cutting down削减,砍伐,伐木,砍掉decreasing减少,逐渐减少,递减,越来越少deflating放气,放气的,放气机,放气式diminishing逐渐减少,递减,越来越少,逐渐减少的drawing together齐心协力,齐心合力,共同绘制omitting省略,遗漏,省略了,省略的withdrawing撤回,退出,提取,撤出
as instiffen
as intighten
as inconstrict

Examples

  • The Sabres created some tense moments in the third period, twice cutting the margin to one goal.

  • Igor Bobic, a politics reporter at Huffington Post, captured the tense moment in a video he posted on Twitter.

  • While most advertisers have returned to those channels, there’s a sense that “the next couple of weeks will be tense,” noted one agency executive, adding that agencies “have to be ready to move at any moment” should there be more unrest.

  • It’s usually billed as a horror comedy or a comedy thriller, but those labels undersell how tense and dark the film gets.

  • Extreme landingsSpeaking of landings, this February a giant A380 aircraft made a tense touchdown in strong crosswinds in London.

  • They sense you tensing up at peculiar moments, acting skittish, laughing a little too hard, over-feigning outrage or surprise.

  • She was trying so hard not to smile that her face kept tensing up.

  • All the while, I was tensing up, knowing that this unexpected time would (and did) make me late for a crucial work appointment.

  • Barring a little stiffness, which he removed by flexing and tensing his muscles, he felt very strong and capable.

  • I felt that familiar tightening behind my eyes, that familiar tensing and hunching of my shoulders.

  • I was esping the muscles in his stomach, under his loose clothing, for that first tensing sign of anger, but nothing showed.

  • He rode for a quarter 192 of a mile in silence, his muscles slowly tensing as he watched.

  • She grew rigid under the shock of dire realization, tensing her muscles, without volition, as if to repel attack.