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Noun

She uses meditation as a way of reducing stress.

Hormones are released into the body in response to emotional stress.

She is dealing with the stresses of working full-time and going to school.

He talked about the stresses and strains of owning a business.

Carrying a heavy backpack around all day puts a lot of stress on your shoulders and back.

To reduce the amount of stress on your back, bend your knees when you lift something heavy.

The ship’s mast snapped under the stress of high winds.

measuring the effects of stresses on the material

Verb

The union stressed the need for stricter safety standards.

The risks involved in the procedure should be stressed.

Some people stress the second syllable of “harassment,” while others stress the first.

When she said, “We need lots of money,” she stressed the word “lots.”

It’s not an important decision and it isn’t worth stressing over.

Recent Examples on the Web

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—Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023

Scientists continue to study the link between stress and physical activity.

—Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023

As traders look to the Chinese economy to push oil prices and energy stocks higher this year, uncertainty around the U.S. appetite for fuel has grown amid banking-sector stress and the Fed’s fight on inflation.

—David Uberti, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023

What about the stress and anxiety about finances?

—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023

Caregivers are at greater risk for depression, stress and anxiety, with 66% of Florida caregivers reporting at least one other chronic condition.

—Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023

People using SoundMind can indicate their levels of stress, anxiety, or depression at the outset.

—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Mar. 2023

This includes stress, which causes cortisol levels to spike.

—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023

There are also medical conditions like diabetes, not to mention stress, and clothing choices, among others.

—Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023

Baker stressed Wednesday his need to play the long game this season as the Astros eye playing meaningful baseball through October.

—Michael Shapiro, Chron, 5 Apr. 2023

But Watts stressed that these measures were not a permanent solution.

—Heather Gann | Hgann@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2023

Available in contingencies Both US and Philippine officials stressed the four new bases would not see a permanent US military presence – that’s not allowed under the EDCA – but would be available to US forces in contingencies.

—Brad Lendon, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023

Artist Dmytro Onga Kornilov, who has raised thousands of dollars to purchase tactical gear, stresses the importance of developing expertise to be a good supplier.

—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2023

Hand stressed one major factor for success in the Big 12.

—Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023

But Dillon also stressed the importance of using comedy to lighten the seriousness of contemporary issues.

—Kassy Dillon, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2023

Galbreath said many in the law-enforcement community sharpened their active-shooter plans after Uvalde, stressing the importance of going after the shooter right away.

—Robert Klemko, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023

The Blast Effect: What AR-15 bullets can do to a human body Galbreath said many in the law-enforcement community sharpened their active-shooter plans after Uvalde, stressing the importance of going after the shooter right away.

—Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023

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noun

importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners.

Phonetics. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of special effort in utterance.

Prosody. accent or emphasis on syllables in a metrical pattern; beat.

emphasis in melody, rhythm, etc.; beat.

the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain.

Mechanics.

the action on a body of any system of balanced forces whereby strain or deformation results.
the amount of stress, usually measured in pounds per square inch or in pascals.
a load, force, or system of forces producing a strain.
the internal resistance or reaction of an elastic body to the external forces applied to it.
the ratio of force to area.

See also strain¹ (def. 23), shear (def. 19), torsion (def. 3).

Physiology. a specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism.

physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension: Worry over his job and his wife’s health put him under a great stress.

a situation, occurrence, or factor causing this: The stress of being trapped in the elevator gave him a pounding headache.

Archaic. strong or straining exertion.

verb (used with object)

Phonetics. to pronounce (a syllable or a word) with prominent loudness: Stress the first syllable of “runner.” Stress the second word in “put up with.”Compare accent (def. 18).

to subject to stress or strain.

Mechanics. to subject to stress.

verb (used without object)

to experience stress or worry: Don’t stress about the turkey; I promise it will be delicious.Dad is always stressing out over his job.

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Origin of stress

First recorded in 1275–1325; (noun) Middle English stresse, aphetic variant of distresse; (verb) derivative of the noun; see origin at distress

OTHER WORDS FROM stress

stressless, adjectivestress·less·ness, nounan·ti·stress, adjectivede-stress, verb (used with object)

non·stress, nouno·ver·stressed, adjectivere·stress, verbun·der·stress, nounun·der·stress, verb (used with object)well-stressed, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH stress

accent, stress

Words nearby stress

streptolysin, streptomyces, streptomycin, streptothricin, Stresemann, stress, stress ball, stressbuster, stressed-out, stress fracture, stressful

Other definitions for stress (2 of 2)

a feminine equivalent of -ster: seamstress; songstress.

Origin of -stress

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Words related to stress

weight, agony, anxiety, burden, crunch, fear, hardship, hassle, heat, intensity, nervousness, strain, tension, trauma, worry, repeat, underline, underscore, accent, accentuation

How to use stress in a sentence

These fossils didn’t show the big clusters of dark stress bands.
In that case, the MRI is a “ghost” of that prior inflammation and stress, she says.
For one, if you’re a competitive athlete or bodybuilder that regularly puts a lot of stress on your muscles, BCAAs may help your body recover faster so you can train more often.
Inspiring to read about the hard work, ongoing learning, and level of stress necessary for greatness.

Ricardo, upon noticing my incessant micromanagement and stress, said, “As a CEO, you need to be the most incompetent person in the room.”
Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
Yes, cops are under stress and tension (though their jobs are far less dangerous than normally supposed).
Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.
It also means not having to stress about cleaning out your DVR.
Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.
Feeling himself irresistibly driven by the sudden stress to some kind of action, he sprang to his feet—and screamed!
This description is only imperfect in this point that sufficient stress is not laid on the words fall off.
Although many British actors and musicians were participants in this theater, it often suffered from financial stress.
They looked over the parapet because that method was more sure and quick, and the stress of the battle was great.
It is not necessary to repeat the outlines of his political attitude during the storm and stress of Wallace’s memorable struggle.

British Dictionary definitions for stress (1 of 2)

noun

special emphasis or significance attached to something

mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension

emphasis placed upon a syllable by pronouncing it more loudly than those that surround it

such emphasis as part of a regular rhythmic beat in music or poetry

a syllable so emphasized

physics

force or a system of forces producing deformation or strain
the force acting per unit area

verb

(tr) to give emphasis or prominence to

(tr) to pronounce (a word or syllable) more loudly than those that surround it

(tr) to subject to stress or strain

informal (intr) to become stressed or anxious

Derived forms of stress

stressful, adjectivestressfully, adverbstressfulness, noun

Word Origin for stress

C14: stresse, shortened from distress

British Dictionary definitions for stress (2 of 2)

suffix forming nouns

indicating a woman who performs or is engaged in a certain activitysongstress; seamstress Compare -ster (def. 1)

Word Origin for -stress

from -st (e) r + -ess

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Scientific definitions for stress

The force per unit area applied to an object. Objects subject to stress tend to become distorted or deformed. Compare strain. See also axial stress shear stress. See more at Hooke’s law.

A physiologic reaction by an organism to an uncomfortable or unfamiliar physical or psychological stimulus. Biological changes result from stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system, including a heightened state of alertness, anxiety, increased heart rate, and sweating.
The stimulus or circumstance causing such a reaction.

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Cultural definitions for stress (1 of 2)

In physics, the internal resistance of an object to an external force that tends to deform it.

Cultural definitions for stress (2 of 2)

A physical factor, such as injury, or mental state, such as anxiety, that disturbs the body’s normal state of functioning. Stress may contribute to the development of some illnesses, including heart disease and cancer.

notes for stress

The term stress also refers to the physical and mental state produced in the body when it is influenced by such factors: “The stress of the new job was too much for Tim, so he requested reassignment to his old position in the company.”

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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Detailed information on stress including its meaning, definition, causes and stress types are given.

What is Stress? Stress is the mental, physical and emotional reactions you experience as a results of demands of your life. You must have experienced stress at one time or another.

The word stress is derived from the Latin word «stringi», which means, «to be drawn tight». Stress can be defined as follows:

In medical terms stress is described as, «a physical or psychological stimulus that can produce mental tension or physiological reactions that may lead to illness.» When you are under stress, your adrenal gland releases corticosteroids, which are converted to cortisol in the blood stream. Cortisol have an immune suppressive effect in your body.
According to Richard S Lazarus, stress is a feeling experienced when a person thinks that «the demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.»

Your body tries to adjust to different circumstances or continually changing environment around you. In this process, the body is put to extra work resulting in «wear and tear». In other words, your body is stressed. Stress disturbs the body’s normal way of functioning.

Without stress, there would be no life. However, excessive or prolonged stress can be harmful. Stress is unique and personal. A situation may be stressful for someone but the same situation may be challenging for others. For example, arranging a world level symposium may be challenging for one person but stressful to another. Some persons have habit of worrying unnecessarily.

Stress is not always necessarily harmful. Hans Selye said in 1956, «stress is not necessarily something bad, it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.» Stress can be therefore negative, positive or neutral. Passing in an examination can be just stressful as failing.

Sometime we know in advance that doing a certain thing will be stressful, but we are willing to doing that. For example, while planning a vacation to a hill station you know that it would be stressful at certain times. But you are willing to face those challenges.

People often work well under certain stress leading to increased productivity. Many times you do not know in advance and the stress periods may be sudden. The situation may not be under your control. Too much stress is harmful. You should know your level of stress that allows you to perform optimally in your life.

Three types of stress may be distinguished:

Acute stress

Acute stress is usually for short time and may be due to work pressure, meeting deadlines pressure or minor accident, over exertion, increased physical activity, searching something but you misplaced it, or similar things.

Actue Stress Symptoms

are headaches, back pain, stomach problems, rapid heartbeat, muscle aches or body pain.
Acute stress is common in people who take too many responsibilities and are overloaded or overworked, disorganized, always in a hurry and never in time. These people are generally in positions of importance at their workplace and stressful lifestyle is inherent in them.
Chronic Stress

This type of stress is the most serious of all the 3 stress types. Chronic stress is a prolonged stress that exists for weeks, months, or even years. This stress is due to poverty, broken or stressed families and marriages, chronic illness and successive failures in life. People suffering from this type of stress get used to it and may even not realize that they are under chronic stress. It is very harmful to their health.

Whenever our body feels something not favorable, then it tries to defend itself. If this situation continues for a long time, then our body is working overtime.

There are several causes of stress. For example, you are under stress when you are worried about something, worried about your children, worried about the illness of your father, worried about your job security, or worried about your loans or similar things.

You may be under stress due to several causes. Look at the following causes of stress.

Stress at Home
- Death of spouse, family, near relative or friend.
- Injury or illness of any family member.
- Marriage of self or son or daughter or brother or sister.
- Separation or divorce from partner.
- Pregnancy or birth of a new baby.
- Children’s behavior or disobedience.
- Children’s educational performance.
- Hyperactive children.
- Sexual molestation.
- Argument or heated conversations with spouse, family members or friends or neighbors.
- Not sufficient money to meet out daily expenses or unexpected expenditure.
- Not sufficient money to raise your standard of living.
- Loss of money in burglary, pick-pocketed or share market.
- Moving house.
- Change of place or change of city or change of country.
Stress at Work
- To meet out the demands of the job.
- Your relationship with colleagues.
- To control staff under you.
- To train your staff and take work from them.
- Support you receive from your boss, colleagues and juniors.
- Excessive work pressure.
- To meet out deadlines.
- To give new results.
- To produce new publications if you are in research area.
- Working overtime and on holidays.
- New work hours.
- Promotion or you have not been promoted or your junior has superseded you.
- Argument or heated conversations with co-workers or boss.
- Change of job.
- Work against will.
- Harassment.
- Sexual molestation.
Other Causes of Stress
- Fear, intermittent or continuous.
- Threats: physical threats, social threats, financial threat, other threats.
- Uncertainty.
- Lack of sleep.
- Somebody misunderstands you.
- Setback to your position in society.

If you are under stress, then you should know how you can get stress relief.

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Etymology[edit]

From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”).^[1] This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”).

In the sense of «mental strain» or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /stɹɛs/
Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun[edit]

stress (countable and uncountable, plural stresses)

(biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
(biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
(countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
(countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

Go easy on him, he’s been under a lot of stress lately.
(countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.

Synonym: accent

Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
(countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.

Synonym: stress accent

Antonyms: pitch, pitch accent
- 2020 July 9, Steve Rapaport, “Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European”, in Bridget Drinka, editor, Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected Papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, →DOI, page 59:
  
  The shift from pitch to stress appears to happen before the other obliques begin merging in the Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Primitive Irish, and Middle Indo-Aryan. But further investigation into the timeline of sound changes […] shows that, at least in Germanic, the oblique and core noun stems sound quite unpredictably different in all these families by the time of the crucial accent shift from pitch to stress. […] once a language becomes stress-sensitive, there seems to be a strong tendency in early Indo-European languages to shift the stress to the first syllable. This change happens shortly after the change to stress accent in Proto-Germanic, Proto-Italic, and Proto-Celtic, and even Thessalian, with evidence from Dybo’s Law and Verner’s Law left behind to show that sound changes happened after the changes to stress accent.
(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
Obsolete form of distress.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  
  With this sad Hersal of his heavy stress,
  The warlike Damzel was empassion’s sore,
  And said; Sir Knight, your Cause is nothing less
  Than is your Sorrow , certes if not more
(Scotland, law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

Synonyms[edit]

(phonetics): accent, emphasis
(on words in speaking): emphasis
(on a point): emphasis

Derived terms[edit]

stress deafness
stress-free, stressfree
stressful
stresswise

Translations[edit]

(physics) internal force across a boundary per area

Arabic: إِجْهَاد‎ m (ʔijhād)
Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk)
Bulgarian: напреже́ние (bg) n (naprežénie)
Catalan: tensió f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 壓力／压力 (zh) (yālì)
Danish: spænding (da) c
Dutch: spanning (nl), zenuwen (nl)
Finnish: jännitys (fi), rasitus (fi), kuormitus (fi)
French: tension (fr) f, contrainte (fr) f
Georgian: ძაბვა (ʒabva)
German: Spannung (de) f
Greek: (Biology) καταπόνηση (el) f (katapónisi)
Hungarian: erő (hu), nyomás (hu)
Italian: tensione (it) f
Japanese: 応力 (ja) (おうりょく, ōryoku)
Korean: 변형력(變形力) (ko) (byeonhyeongnyeok), 압력(壓力) (ko) (amnyeok)
Latvian: spriegums m
Malay: tegasan (ms)
Persian: فشار‎ (fa) (fešâr)
Polish: naprężenie n
Portuguese: tensão (pt) f
Romanian: tensiune (ro) f, încordare (ro) f
Russian: напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije), нажи́м (ru) m (nažím), уси́лие (ru) n (usílije), давле́ние (ru) n (davlénije)
Sinhalese: ආතතිය (ātatiya)
Spanish: tensión (es) f
Swedish: spänning (sv), dragspänning (sv) c, normalspänning c
Tagalog: sidhi
Ukrainian: на́тиск m (nátysk)
Vietnamese: áp lực (vi) (壓力)

emotional pressure

Albanian: stres m
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Amharic: ውጥረት (wəṭrät)
Arabic: إِجْهَاد‎ m (ʔijhād)
Armenian: սթրես (hy) (stʿres)
Azerbaijani: stress (az)
Bashkir: баҫым (baθım)
Belarusian: стрэс m (stres)
Bulgarian: стрес m (stres)
Catalan: estrès (ca) m
Chinese:

Mandarin: 壓力／压力 (zh) (yālì)
Czech: stres (cs) m
Danish: stress (da) n or c
Dutch: stress (nl) m or f
Esperanto: streso, streĉo
Estonian: stress (et)
Finnish: rasitus (fi), stressi (fi), paine (fi)
French: stress (fr) m
Galician: estrés m
Georgian: სტრესი (sṭresi)
German: Stress (de) m
Greek: άγχος (el) n (ánchos), στρες (el) n (stres)
Hebrew: מְצוּקָה‎ (he) f (m’tsuká)
Hindi: तनाव (hi) m (tanāv)
Hungarian: stressz (hu)
Icelandic: streita (is) f, stress (is) n (informal, slang)
Indonesian: stres (id)
Italian: stress (it) m, pressione (it) f
Japanese: ストレス (ja) (sutoresu)
Kazakh: стресс (stress)
Korean: 스트레스 (ko) (seuteureseu), 압박(壓迫) (ko) (apbak)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: hêrsdarî (ku)
Kyrgyz: стресс (ky) (stress)
Latvian: stress m
Lithuanian: stresas (lt) m
Macedonian: стрес m (stres)
Malay: tekanan (ms)
Maori: tāmitanga, mate tāmitanga, ahotea
Norwegian:

Bokmål: stress (no) n
Persian: فشار‎ (fa) (fešâr), استرس‎ (estres)
Plautdietsch: Wicht (nds) f, Druck m
Polish: stres (pl) m
Portuguese: estresse (pt) (Brazil), stress (pt) (Portugal)
Romanian: stres (ro) n
Russian: стресс (ru) m (strɛss), стресс (ru) m (stress), напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije), давле́ние (ru) n (davlénije)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: стре̏с m, прѝтисак m

Roman: stres (sh) m, pritisak (sh) m
Sinhalese: ආතතිය (ātatiya)
Slovak: stres m
Slovene: stres m
Spanish: estrés (es) m
Swedish: stress (sv) c
Tagalog: istres
Tajik: стресс (stress)
Tatar: стресс (stress)
Thai: ความเครียด (th) (kwaam-krîiat)
Turkish: stres (tr), sıkıntı (tr)
Turkmen: stress
Ukrainian: стрес m (stres)
Uzbek: stress (uz)
Vietnamese: áp lực (vi) (壓力), căng thẳng (vi)

on a phonological segment — see accent

on a point in an argument

Bashkir: баҫым (baθım)
Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk)
Bulgarian: акцент (bg) m (akcent)
Catalan: èmfasi (ca) m
Finnish: painotus (fi)
French: emphase (fr) f
German: Betonung (de) f
Greek: έμφαση (el) f (émfasi), τονισμός (el) m (tonismós)
Icelandic: áhersla f
Irish: béim (ga) f
Italian: enfasi (it) f
Japanese: 重き (おもき, omoki), 力説 (ja) (りきせつ, rikisetsu)
Korean: 강조(強調 (ko)
Latvian: akcents m, uzsvars m
Polish: nacisk (pl) m, emfaza (pl) f
Portuguese: ênfase (pt) f
Russian: акце́нт (ru) m (akcént), ударе́ние (ru) n (udarénije)
Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: на́гласак m

Roman: náglasak (sh) m
Spanish: énfasis (es) m
Turkish: vurgu (tr)
Ukrainian: на́голос m (náholos)

Verb[edit]

stress (third-person singular simple present stresses, present participle stressing, simple past and past participle stressed)

(transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
(transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
(intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
(transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).

“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
(transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
(transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.

Synonyms[edit]

(phonetics): emphasise/emphasize
(on words in speaking): emphasise/emphasize
(on a point): emphasise/emphasize, underline

Derived terms[edit]

de-stress, destress
stressed
stress out

Translations[edit]

to apply emotional pressure to

Bulgarian: стресирам (stresiram)
Catalan: estressar (ca)
Danish: stresse
Finnish: stressata (fi)
French: stresser (fr)
German: stressen (de)
Hungarian: stresszel (hu)
Italian: stressare (it)
Korean: 압박을 주다 (apbageul juda)
Portuguese: estressar (Brazil), stressar (Portugal)
Spanish: estresar (es)
Swedish: stressa (sv)
Vietnamese: gây căng thẳng

to emphasise (a syllable)

Armenian: շեշտել (hy) (šeštel)
Bulgarian: слагам ударение (slagam udarenie)
Dutch: beklemtonen (nl)
Esperanto: akcenti
Finnish: painottaa (fi)
French: emphaser
German: betonen (de)
Greek: τονίζω (el) (tonízo)
Ido: acentizar (io)
Italian: accentuare (it)
Korean: 강세를 넣다 (gangsereul neota)
Polish: akcentować (pl) impf, zaakcentować pf
Portuguese: acentuar (pt)
Spanish: acentuar (es)
Turkish: vurgulamak (tr)

to emphasise (words in speaking)

Armenian: շեշտել (hy) (šeštel)
Bulgarian: акцентирам (akcentiram)
Esperanto: akcenti
Estonian: rõhutama
Finnish: painottaa (fi)
German: betonen (de)
Greek: τονίζω (el) (tonízo)
Icelandic: leggja áherslu á (governs accusative case)
Italian: enfatizzare (it)
Korean: 강세를 넣다 (gangsereul neota)
Polish: akcentować (pl) impf, zaakcentować pf, podkreślać (pl) impf, podkreślić (pl) pf
Portuguese: enfatizar (pt), acentuar (pt)
Spanish: enfatizar (es)
Turkish: vurgulamak (tr), altını çizmek

References[edit]

^ Keil, R.M.K. (2004) Coping and stress: a conceptual analysis Journal of Advanced Nursing, 45(6), 659–665

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strain
strait
strict
stringent
stringency

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Borrowed from English stress.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈsd̥ʁɛs], [ˈsd̥ʁas], [ˈsd̥ʁɑs]

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stress c or n (singular definite stressen or stresset, not used in plural)

stress

Derived terms[edit]

stresse (verb)
stresset (adjective)

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English stress.

Pronunciation[edit]

Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun[edit]

stress m (uncountable)

stress

Derived terms[edit]

stressen (“to be stressed”)
stresskip
stresskonijn

French[edit]

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Borrowed from English stress.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /stʁɛs/
Audio (Switzerland) (file)

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stress m (uncountable)

stress (emotional pressure)

Derived terms[edit]

stresser

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Borrowed from English stress.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈstrɛsː]
Rhymes: -ɛsː

Noun[edit]

stress n (genitive singular stress, no plural)

stress

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stressa
stressaður

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stress (first-person possessive stressku, second-person possessive stressmu, third-person possessive stressnya)

Nonstandard spelling of stres.

Adjective[edit]

stress

Nonstandard spelling of stres.

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English stress.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈstrɛs/
Rhymes: -ɛs
Hyphenation: strèss

Noun[edit]

stress m (invariable)

stress

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Borrowed from English stress.

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stress

imperative of stresse

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stress m (plural stresses)

Alternative form of estresse
Alternative form of stresse

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Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English stress.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /esˈtɾes/ [esˈt̪ɾes]
Rhymes: -es

Noun[edit]

stress m (plural stresses)

stress

Synonym: estrés

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English stress.

Noun[edit]

stress c (uncountable)

stress

Declension[edit]

Declension of stress
	Uncountable
Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	stress	stressen	—	—
Genitive	stress	stressens	—	—

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stress

(strĕs)

1. Importance, significance, or emphasis placed on something. See Synonyms at emphasis.

2. Linguistics

a. The relative force with which a sound or syllable is spoken.

b. The emphasis placed on the sound or syllable spoken most forcefully in a word or phrase.

a. The relative force of sound or emphasis given a syllable or word in accordance with a metrical pattern.

b. A syllable having strong relative emphasis in a metrical pattern.

4. An accent or mark representing such emphasis or force.

5. Physics

a. The internal distribution of force per unit area within a body subject to an applied force or system of forces.

b. The internal resistance of a body to such an applied force or system of forces.

a. A condition of extreme difficulty, pressure, or strain: «He presided over the economy during the period of its greatest stress and danger» (Robert J. Samuelson).

b. A condition of physiological or psychological disturbance to the normal functioning or well-being of an organism, occurring as a response to any of various environmental or psychosocial stimuli. Signs and symptoms of stress in humans include increased blood pressure, insomnia, and irritability.

c. A stimulus or circumstance causing such a condition: couldn’t stand the stresses of the job and quit.

v. stressed, stress·ing, stress·es

v.tr.

1. To place emphasis on: stressed basic fire safety in her talk.

2. To give prominence of sound to (a syllable or word) in pronouncing or in accordance with a metrical pattern.

3. Informal To subject to physiological or mental stress or strain. Often used with out: The pressure of the deadline is really stressing me out.

4. To subject to mechanical pressure or force.

v.intr. Informal

To undergo physiological or mental stress, as from working too much. Often used with out.

[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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stress

(strɛs)

1. special emphasis or significance attached to something

2. mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension

3. (Phonetics & Phonology) emphasis placed upon a syllable by pronouncing it more loudly than those that surround it

4. (Poetry) such emphasis as part of a regular rhythmic beat in music or poetry

5. (Phonetics & Phonology) a syllable so emphasized

6. (General Physics) physics

a. force or a system of forces producing deformation or strain

b. the force acting per unit area

7. (tr) to give emphasis or prominence to

8. (Phonetics & Phonology) (tr) to pronounce (a word or syllable) more loudly than those that surround it

9. (tr) to subject to stress or strain

10. informal (intr) to become stressed or anxious

[C14: stresse, shortened from distress]

ˈstressful adj

ˈstressfully adv

ˈstressfulness n

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stress

(strɛs)

1. importance or significance attached to a thing; emphasis: to lay stress upon good manners.

2. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a speech sound, syllable, or word as a result of special effort in utterance.

3. accent or emphasis on syllables in a metrical pattern; beat.

5. the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain.

a. the action on a body of any system of balanced forces whereby strain or deformation results.

b. the intensity of such action, as measured in pounds per square inch or pascals.

7. a specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium.

8. physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension.

9. Archaic. intense exertion.

v.t.

10. to emphasize.

11. to pronounce (a speech sound, syllable, or word) with prominent loudness; accent.

12. to subject to stress.

[1275–1325; (n.) Middle English stresse, aph. variant of distresse distress]

stress′ful, adj.

stress′ful•ly, adv.

stress′less, adj.

stress′less•ness, n.

-stress

a feminine equivalent of -ster: seamstress; songstress.

stress

(strĕs)

1. A force that tends to distort or deform something by compressing or stretching it: The stress of the books caused the wooden shelf to warp. Compare strain. See more at Hooke’s law.

2. A reaction by an organism to a disturbing or dangerous situation. In humans and other animals, the body’s initial response to stress includes a rise in heart rate and blood pressure and a heightened state of alertness. A certain amount of stress may be necessary for an organism to survive, but too much stress can lead to ill health.

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stress

Past participle: stressed
Gerund: stressing

Imperative
stress
stress

Present
I stress
you stress
he/she/it stresses
we stress
you stress
they stress

Preterite
I stressed
you stressed
he/she/it stressed
we stressed
you stressed
they stressed

Present Continuous
I am stressing
you are stressing
he/she/it is stressing
we are stressing
you are stressing
they are stressing

Present Perfect
I have stressed
you have stressed
he/she/it has stressed
we have stressed
you have stressed
they have stressed

Past Continuous
I was stressing
you were stressing
he/she/it was stressing
we were stressing
you were stressing
they were stressing

Past Perfect
I had stressed
you had stressed
he/she/it had stressed
we had stressed
you had stressed
they had stressed

Future
I will stress
you will stress
he/she/it will stress
we will stress
you will stress
they will stress

Future Perfect
I will have stressed
you will have stressed
he/she/it will have stressed
we will have stressed
you will have stressed
they will have stressed

Future Continuous
I will be stressing
you will be stressing
he/she/it will be stressing
we will be stressing
you will be stressing
they will be stressing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been stressing
you have been stressing
he/she/it has been stressing
we have been stressing
you have been stressing
they have been stressing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been stressing
you will have been stressing
he/she/it will have been stressing
we will have been stressing
you will have been stressing
they will have been stressing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been stressing
you had been stressing
he/she/it had been stressing
we had been stressing
you had been stressing
they had been stressing

Conditional
I would stress
you would stress
he/she/it would stress
we would stress
you would stress
they would stress

Past Conditional
I would have stressed
you would have stressed
he/she/it would have stressed
we would have stressed
you would have stressed
they would have stressed

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	stress — the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); «he put the stress on the wrong syllable» accent, emphasis prosody, inflection — the patterns of stress and intonation in a language accentuation — the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance pitch accent, tonic accent — emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness word accent, word stress — the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word sentence stress — the distribution of stresses within a sentence
	2.	stress — (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; «he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension»; «stress is a vasoconstrictor» tension, tenseness psychological science, psychology — the science of mental life mental strain, nervous strain, strain — (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress; «his responsibilities were a constant strain»; «the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him» yips — nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts); «to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting» breaking point — (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial
	3.	stress — special emphasis attached to something; «the stress was more on accuracy than on speed» focus emphasis, accent — special importance or significance; «the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis»; «the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents»
	4.	stress — difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; «she endured the stresses and strains of life»; «he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger»- R.J.Samuelson strain difficulty — a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one’s ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; «grappling with financial difficulties»
	5.	stress — (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; «the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area» natural philosophy, physics — the science of matter and energy and their interactions; «his favorite subject was physics» force — (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; «force equals mass times acceleration» tension — (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body; «the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear» breaking point — the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks
Verb	1.	stress — to stress, single out as important; «Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet» accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, emphasise background, play down, downplay — understate the importance or quality of; «he played down his royal ancestry» set off, bring out — direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; «This dress accentuates your nice figure!»; «I set off these words by brackets» re-emphasise, re-emphasize — emphasize anew; «The director re-emphasized the need for greater productivity» bear down — pay special attention to; «The lectures bore down on the political background» evince, express, show — give expression to; «She showed her disappointment» topicalize — emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence; «Speakers topicalize more often than they realize»; «The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'» point up — emphasize, especially by identification; «This novel points up the racial problems in England» press home, ram home, drive home — make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something; «drive home a point or an argument»; «I’m trying to drive home these basic ideas» emphasise, underline, underscore, emphasize — give extra weight to (a communication); «Her gesture emphasized her words»
	2.	stress — put stress on; utter with an accent; «In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word» accent, accentuate enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out, articulate, say — speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; «She pronounces French words in a funny way»; «I cannot say `zip wire'»; «Can the child sound out this complicated word?»
	3.	stress — test the limits of; «You are trying my patience!» strain, try afflict — cause great unhappiness for; distress; «she was afflicted by the death of her parents» rack — stretch to the limits; «rack one’s brains»

stress

verb

1. emphasize, highlight, underline, repeat, draw attention to, dwell on, underscore, accentuate, point up, rub in, impress on someone, harp on, press home, bring to the fore, belabour He stressed the need for new measures.

2. place the emphasis on, emphasize, give emphasis to, place the accent on, lay emphasis upon She stresses the syllables as though teaching a child.

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stress

noun

1. Special weight placed upon something considered important:

2. The act, condition, or effect of exerting force on someone or something:

verb

Translations

důrazzdůraznitpřízvukstreszatížení

belastningbetonebetoninglægge tryk pålægge vægt på

painottaastressi

naglasitistres

áherslaleggja áherslu á; bera fram meî áhersluspennaspenna, stress

ストレス強調する

강조하다스트레스

įtempimasstresas

pasvītrotslodzespriedzespriegumsstress

stres

naglasnaglasitipoudaritistres

stressstressa

เน้นเน้นย้ำ

nhấn mạnhsự nhấn mạnh

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stress

[ˈstrɛs]

(= physical pressure) → tension f

(= emphasis) → accent m
to lay great stress on sth → mettre beaucoup l’accent sur qch

modif

[control, management, relief] → du stress; [level] → de stress stress fracture, stress pattern

stress

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stress

(stres) noun

1. the worry experienced by a person in particular circumstances, or the state of anxiety caused by this. the stresses of modern life; Her headaches may be caused by stress.

2. force exerted by (parts of) bodies on each other. Bridge-designers have to know about stress.

3. force or emphasis placed, in speaking, on particular syllables or words. In the word `widow’ we put stress on the first syllable.

verb

to emphasize (a syllable etc, or a fact etc). Should you stress the last syllable in `violin’?; He stressed the necessity of being punctual.

ˈstress-mark noun

a mark used to show where the stress comes in a word etc. ˈbookworm; designer.

lay/put stress on

to emphasize (a fact etc). He laid stress on this point.

stress

→ تَأْكِيد, يُؤَكِدُ důraz, zdůraznit betone, vægt betonen, Stress ένταση, τονίζω énfasis, hacer hincapié painottaa, stressi accent, insister sur naglasiti, stres accentuare, tensione ストレス, 強調する 강조하다, 스트레스 beklemtonen, nadruk belaste, belastning stres, zaakcentować ênfase, salientar подчеркивать, ударение stress, stressa เน้น, เน้นย้ำ stres, vurgulamak nhấn mạnh, sự nhấn mạnh 压力, 着重

stress

n. estrés, tensión emocional, compulsión.

1. factor químico, físico o emocional que provoca un cambio como respuesta inmediata o demorada en las funciones del cuerpo o en sus partes;

___ test → prueba de esfuerzo;

2. gr. énfasis, acento tónico.

stress

n estrés m; Are you under a lot of stress?..¿Está bajo mucho estrés?; job — estrés laboral or en el trabajo; vt to — (someone) out, to put — on (someone) estresar; vi to — out estresarse

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OTHER WORDS FROM stress

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Other definitions for stress (2 of 2)

Origin of -stress

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How to use stress in a sentence

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Word Origin for stress

British Dictionary definitions for stress (2 of 2)

Word Origin for -stress

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Cultural definitions for stress (1 of 2)

Cultural definitions for stress (2 of 2)

notes for stress

Acute stress

Actue Stress Symptoms

Chronic Stress

Stress at Home

Stress at Work

Other Causes of Stress

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