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Tense vs. Escalate — What's the Difference?

Tense vs. Escalate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tense and Escalate

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Tense

Tightly stretched; taut.

Escalate

To increase in intensity, extent, or amount
Tensions that escalated into violence.

Tense

In a state of nervous tension or mental strain
Was very tense before the exam.

Escalate

To increase, enlarge, or intensify
Escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf.

Tense

Causing or characterized by nervous tension or mental strain
A tense standoff between border patrols.
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Escalate

To pass (a transaction or case) on to a higher level in an organizational hierarchy
Escalated the customer's complaint.

Tense

(Linguistics) Enunciated with taut muscles, as the sound (ē) in keen.

Escalate

(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
Violence escalated during the election.
The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
A small fight escalated into a big fight.

Tense

To make or become tense.

Escalate

(transitive) In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech

Tense

A property of verbs in which the time of the action or state, as well as its continuance or completion, is indicated or expressed.

Escalate

(uncommon) To climb.

Tense

A category or set of verb forms that indicate or express the time, such as past, present, or future, of the action or state.

Escalate

Increase in extent or intensity;
The Allies escalated the bombing

Tense

Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
The basic tenses in English are present, past, and future.

Tense

An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
English only has a present tense and a past tense; it has no future tense.

Tense

The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.

Tense

To apply a tense to.
Tensing a verb

Tense

(transitive) To make tense.

Tense

(intransitive) To become tense.

Tense

Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.

Tense

Pulled taut, without any slack.

Tense

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.

Tense

Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her.

Tense

A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

Tense

Stretch or force to the limit;
Strain the rope

Tense

Increase the tension on;
Tense a rope

Tense

Become tense or tenser;
He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room

Tense

Make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;

Tense

In or of a state of physical or nervous tension

Tense

Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

Tense

Taut or rigid; stretched tight;
Tense piano strings

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