Definition of stress

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Stress (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35..

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Extreme :: Extreme (n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc..
Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting..
Tiger :: Tiger (n.) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress..
Mistress :: Mistress (n.) A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually..
Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty..
Avowant :: Avowant (n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking..
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child..
Pine :: Pine (v. i.) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away..
Weather-driven :: Weather-driven (a.) Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
Seamstressy :: Seamstressy (n.) The business of a seamstress.
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..
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.
#NAME? :: -ess () A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress..
Singeress :: Singeress (n.) A songstress.
Tine :: Tine (n.) Trouble; distress; teen.
Labor :: Labor (n.) Any pang or distress.
Mistressship :: Mistressship (n.) Female rule or dominion.
Mistress :: Mistress (n.) A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman..
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