• v.
    ⦿cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
    lexical concept
  • he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:strain
  2. enl:tense
  3. enl:tense up
wn:interlingual indexili:i21889

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelstraintensetense up