Definition of stress

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Stress (n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained..

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Severe :: Severe (superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold..
Creep :: Creep (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects..
Hungry :: Hungry (superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire..
Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..
Yaup :: Yaup (n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain..
Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind..
Carking :: Carking (a.) Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares..
Mistress :: Mistress (n.) A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it..
Delilah :: Delilah (n.) The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress..
Presentiment :: Presentiment (n.) Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding..
Avowant :: Avowant (n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking..
Emphatical :: Emphatical (a.) Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning..
Ministress :: Ministress (n.) A woman who ministers.
Anxiety :: Anxiety (n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium..
Singster :: Singster (n.) A songstress.
Stress :: Stress (v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.
Demimonde :: Demimonde (n.) Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps..
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
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..
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