tensioned
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tensioned (comparative more tensioned, superlative most tensioned)
- In tension; strained or pulled on.
- 1982 December 4, Martin Krieger, “Come Out Croaking”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 8:
- It is in the nature of the assertion of distinctions of identity that they force others to realize they are in a place that is not so universal, that their straight being is at best a tensioned coil likely to snap back any time soon.
Verb
[edit]tensioned
- simple past and past participle of tension