Definition of stress

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Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

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Outcry :: Outcry (n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor..
Singeress :: Singeress (n.) A songstress.
Distressed :: Distressed (imp. & p. p.) of Distres.
Mistressship :: Mistressship (n.) Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun..
Needy :: Needy (superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
Distress :: Distress (n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Anguish :: Anguish (n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress..
Dame :: Dame (n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady..
Needlework :: Needlework (n.) Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress..
Distress :: Distress (n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
Calamity :: Calamity (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..
#NAME? :: -ess () A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress..
Stress :: Stress (v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
Darkness :: Darkness (n.) A state of distress or trouble.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..
Sempstress :: Sempstress (n.) A seamstress.
Backstress :: Backstress (n.) A female baker.
Demimonde :: Demimonde (n.) Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps..
Passion :: Passion (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross..
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