Definition of stress

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Stress (n.) Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance..

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Mistressship :: Mistressship (n.) Female rule or dominion.
Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..
Console :: Console (v. t.) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Affliction :: Affliction (n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief..
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms..
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc..
Famish :: Famish (v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger..
Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious..
Roaring :: Roaring (n.) A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation..
Distressedness :: Distressedness (n.) A state of being distressed or greatly pained.
Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..
Singeress :: Singeress (n.) A songstress.
Sempstressy :: Sempstressy (n.) Seamstressy.
Cloistress :: Cloistress (n.) A nun.
Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..
Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..
Strain :: Strain (n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress..
Cumber :: Cumber (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
Inamorata :: Inamorata (n.) A woman in love; a mistress.
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