meaning of tenses

1. One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
2.
Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
3.
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time


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