tensely

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English

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Etymology

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From tense +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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tensely (comparative more tensely, superlative most tensely)

  1. In a tense manner.
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 61:
      He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.

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