Tensing

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past past perfect perfect period perturbed pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched pluperfect point tense pokerlike posttonic present present perfect press preterit

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produce progressive tense prolong prolongate prolongated prolonged protract protracted psychological time pull pulled pumped up queasy quivering rack ramrodlike reinforce renitent restive restless retroflex rigid rigidify rodlike rounded rusty screw up semivowel sensitive shore up sinking soft solicitous sonant space space time space-time spin out spun out square starched starchy stiff stiff as buckram stiffen stopped straggling strain every nerve strengthen stress stressed stressful stretch stretch out stretched stretched out stretched tight strict string out strong strung out surd suspenseful sweat blood syllabic tauten tax tension term the future the past the present thick throaty tide tight tighten time timebinding tonal tonic touchy trice up troubled tug twangy unaccented unamiable unamicable uncordial under a strain uneasy unfriendly ungenial unharmonious unquiet unrestful unrounded unsettled unsociable unstressed upset uptight velar virgate vocalic vocoid voiced voiceless volatile vowel vowellike weak while wide with bated breath with muscles tense worked up worried worrisome worrying wrought up zealous

Verb(3 words)

strain tense up wind up

Adjective(5 words)

stressed strict taut unrelaxed wound-up

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tensings of the muscles

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