stresses

Meaning of stresses

noun
  1. (Cause of) discomfort.
  2. Serious danger.
  3. An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
  4. A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
  5. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
noun
  1. A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
  2. Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
  3. 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.
  4. Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
  5. Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
    Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
  6. The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
    Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
  7. Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
  8. Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
  9. Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
verb
  1. To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
  2. To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
  3. To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
  4. To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
    “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
  5. To emphasise (words in speaking).
  6. To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
    I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.

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Hyphenation of stresses

stresses

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • stresses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

stresses synonyms

Meaning :

emphasis, accent, emphasise, emphasize, underline

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