Usually means: Most strained or tightly stretched.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. tensest: Merriam-Webster
  2. tensest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tensest: Vocabulary.com
  4. tensest: Wordnik
  5. tensest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tensest: Wiktionary
  7. tensest: Dictionary.com
  8. tensest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. tensest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tensest: Legal dictionary

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  1. tensest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tensest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See tense as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tense)

noun:  (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
noun:  (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
noun:  (grammar, countable) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
verb:  (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to.
adjective:  Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
adjective:  Pulled taut, without any slack.
adjective:  (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
verb:  (transitive) To make tense.
verb:  (intransitive) To become tense.
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