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tensive
[ ten-siv ]
adjective
- stretching or straining.
tensive
/ ˈtɛnsɪv /
adjective
- of or causing tension or strain
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Dancers Daphne Fernberger and Nayomi Van Brunt wove through the house and into the backyard as the tensive dance of forbidden love continued on the grass and landed with a kiss in front of the Los Angeles skyline.
Headache is acute, agonizing, tensive.
Position: Sitting with legs crossed; pain in and about right knee; stretching arm; tensive drawing from left shoulder up to neck; lifting; tensive drawing in left shoulder; pain in sacrum.
Aggravations: Pain right eyeball < from touching lids; burning in urethra when urinating, mostly in mornings; violent pain in sacrum when lifting a slight load; tensive drawing, ascending from left shoulder to nape of neck; < raising and extending arm; pain in right eyeball < from touch.
When asked the nature of the pains she said that they were sometimes itching, sometimes tensive, and often indescribable, suddenly appearing and disappearing.
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