Usually means: Tightening muscles; preparing for action.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tensing: Merriam-Webster
  2. tensing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tensing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tensing, tensing: Wordnik
  5. tensing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tensing: Wiktionary
  7. tensing: Dictionary.com
  8. tensing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tensing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. tensing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tensing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tensing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tensing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tensing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tensing)

noun:  The act of making something tense.

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