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Stress   /strɛs/   Listen
Stress

noun
1.
The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch).  Synonyms: accent, emphasis.
2.
(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.  Synonyms: tenseness, tension.  "Stress is a vasoconstrictor"
3.
Special emphasis attached to something.  Synonym: focus.
4.
Difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension.  Synonym: strain.  "He presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"
5.
(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body.
verb
1.
To stress, single out as important.  Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate.
2.
Put stress on; utter with an accent.  Synonyms: accent, accentuate.
3.
Test the limits of.  Synonyms: strain, try.



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"Stress" Quotes from Famous Books



... should not live, because to fat and eat them somehow appears uncongenial. "Kill Dogs and Feed Pigs," they write to the papers, and, with a Velasquez available, would burn it rather than go chilly. "Kill dogs, feed pigs, and let me eat the pigs!" they cry, even under no great stress, these stern economists who have not noticed how wasteful the Creator is proved to be if He made themselves. They take the strictly intestinal view of life. It is not intelligent; parasite bacilli will get them ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... uppermost, resurrection life, radiant and joyful and strong, for we represent down here Him who liveth and was dead and is alive for evermore. Stress had to be laid in these pages on the death gateway, but a gateway is never a dwelling-place; the death-stage is never meant for our souls to stay and brood over, but to pass through with a will into the light beyond. We may and must, ...
— Parables of the Cross • I. Lilias Trotter
... a sudden gust or stress of weather a ship is thrown so far over that the ballast settles to leeward, and prevents the ship ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... accomplished by an increased stress of voice laid upon the word or phrase. Sometimes, though more rarely, the same object is effected by an unusual lowering of the voice, even to a whisper, and not unfrequently by a pause before the ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... germs of larger state-confederacies in the political fraternizing or even amalgamation of several previously independent stocks (symmachy, synoikismos) are in like manner common to both nations. The more stress is to be laid on this fact of the common foundations of Hellenic and Italian polity, that it is not found to extend to the other Indo-Germanic stocks; the organization of the Germanic community, for example, ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen


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