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Adjective: stressed  strest
  1. Bearing a stress or accent
    "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in 'delay'";
    - accented
     
  2. Suffering severe physical strain or distress
    "he dropped out of the race, clearly stressed and having difficulty breathing";
    - distressed
Verb: stress  stres
  1. Single out as important; draw attention to (something)
    "Dr. Jones stresses exercise in addition to a change in diet";
    - emphasize, emphasise [Brit], punctuate, accent, accentuate
     
  2. Put stress on; utter with an accent
    "In Farsi, you stress the last syllable of each word";
    - accent, accentuate
     
  3. Test the limits of
    "You are stressing my patience!";
    - try, strain
     
  4. To suffer from stress

See also: emphasised [Brit], emphasized, emphatic, masculine, troubled

Type of: afflict, articulate, enounce, enunciate, evince [formal], express, get, have, pronounce, say, show, sound out, suffer, sustain

Encyclopedia: Stressed

Stress, mechanical