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Adjective: stressed  strest
  1. Suffering severe physical strain or distress
    - distressed
     
  2. Bearing a stress or accent
    "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in 'delay'"
    - accented
Verb: stress  stres
  1. To stress, single out as important
    - emphasize, emphasise [Brit], punctuate, accent, accentuate
     
  2. Put stress on; utter with an accent
    - accent, accentuate
     
  3. Test the limits of
    - try, strain

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

Type of: afflict, articulate, enounce, enunciate, evince, express, pronounce, say, show, sound out

Antonym: unstressed

Encyclopedia: Stress Stress, mechanical