Tense

Definition

tense 1 /tens/ adj ၁။ (က) စိတ္အိုက္ေသာ။ စိတ္ေထာင္းျခင္းခံေနရ ေသာ။ He's a very tense person. ❍ look tense and under pressure. (ခ) အေျခအေနတင္းမာေသာ။ a tense moment/atmosphere/meeting ❍ The game is getting very tense. ၂။ ဖိစီးေနေသာ။ faces tense with anxiety. ၃။ တင္းေသာ။ a tense wire. v ~ (sth) (up) တင္းမာသည္။ ေတာင့္သည္။ She tensed, hearing the noise again. ❍ He waited for the race to start, his muscles tensed (up). ❏ be/get tensed up [ IDM ] ေနမထိထိုင္မထိျဖစ္သည္။ Players get very tensed up before a match. tensely adv, tenseness n [U] tense 2 /tens/ n ( grammar ) ႀကိယာ၏ကာလကိုေဖာ္ျပေသာသဏၭာန္။ the present/past/future tense.

Examples

1. A tense situation/atmosphere
2. [a tense silence] : There was a tense silence as everyone waited for his reaction.
3. [a tense atmosphere] : The atmosphere in the courtroom was extremely tense.
4. He was tired
5. but too tense to sleep.
6. The city remains tense after Monday’s bombing.
7. She was gently massaging the tense muscles of his neck.