stress

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  1. noun Importance, significance, or emphasis placed on something. See Synonyms at emphasis.
  2. noun Linguistics The relative force with which a sound or syllable is spoken.
  3. noun Linguistics The emphasis placed on the sound or syllable spoken most forcefully in a word or phrase.
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  • "She wanted to blow off steam about the family situation,about Tabitha's being missing for so long, about how the stress was affecting Victor," Tolliver said easily, and I thought, You're lying. —  grave Surprise
  • And all too often, that stress translates into an unhealthy course of action when a favorite holiday pastime is included. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • Problems with the pacemaker with which she was eventually fitted meant further time on the wards, and adding to her stress was the fact that her only daughter Elizabeth was getting married. —  HX News and Sport
  • If you feel that the stress is affecting your health in a negative way then take some time off to allow your body to recharge. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • He wrote (the stress is his) that Guerrilla is still analyzing the control method. —  Destructoid
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tension ·  pressure ·  anxiety ·  strain ·  risk ·  fatigue ·  exposure ·  disturbance ·  resistance ·  damage ·  uncertainty ·  shock

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stress:   stresses ·  stressed ·  stressing
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  1. Middle English stresse, hardship, partly from destresse (from Old French; see distress) and partly from Old French estrece, narrowness, oppression (from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere, to draw tight; see strait).

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  1. from Old French estrecier, estressier, estrechier, estroyssier, etc., straiten, contract, from Middle Latin as if *strictiare, from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere, draw together, compress: see stringent, strain, strict. Cf. distress.
  2. from stress, v.
  3. from stress, v. In part an aphetic form of distress, q. v.
 

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