Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tenter
Participle: tentered
Gerund: tentering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tenter |
| you | tenter |
| he;she;it | tenters |
| we | tenter |
| you | tenter |
| they | tenter |
Perfect
| I | have tentered |
| you | have tentered |
| he;she;it | has tentered |
| we | have tentered |
| you | have tentered |
| they | have tentered |
Past
| I | tentered |
| you | tentered |
| he;she;it | tentered |
| we | tentered |
| you | tentered |
| they | tentered |
Pluperfect
| I | had tentered |
| you | had tentered |
| he;she;it | had tentered |
| we | had tentered |
| you | had tentered |
| they | had tentered |
Future
| I | will tenter |
| you | will tenter |
| he;she;it | will tenter |
| we | will tenter |
| you | will tenter |
| they | will tenter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tentered |
| you | will have tentered |
| he;she;it | will have tentered |
| we | will have tentered |
| you | will have tentered |
| they | will have tentered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tenter |
| you | tenter |
| he;she;it | tenter |
| we | tenter |
| you | tenter |
| they | tenter |
Perfect
| I | have tentered |
| you | have tentered |
| he;she;it | have tentered |
| we | have tentered |
| you | have tentered |
| they | have tentered |
Imperfect
| I | tentered |
| you | tentered |
| he;she;it | tentered |
| we | tentered |
| you | tentered |
| they | tentered |
Pluperfect
| I | had tentered |
| you | had tentered |
| he;she;it | had tentered |
| we | had tentered |
| you | had tentered |
| they | had tentered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tenter |
| you | would tenter |
| he;she;it | would tenter |
| we | would tenter |
| you | would tenter |
| they | would tenter |
Perfect
| I | would have tentered |
| you | would have tentered |
| he;she;it | would have tentered |
| we | would have tentered |
| you | would have tentered |
| they | would have tentered |
Imperative
| you | tenter |
| we | Let's tenter |
| you | tenter |
Verbs conjugated like 'tenter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tenter'
center,
enter,
renter,
teeter,
tender,
tetter,
banter,
better,
canter,
deter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, "wooden framework for stretching cloth," via O.Fr. (the evolution of the ending is obscure), probably ult. from L. tentorium "tent made of stretched skins," from tentus "stretched," variant pp. of tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). The compound tenterhook (1480) is "one of the hooks that holds cloth on a tenter." The figurative phrase on tenterhooks "in painful suspense" is from 1748; earlier to be on tenters (1533).
2. Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.
Sample Sentences
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Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]