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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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..
Outcry :: Outcry (n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor..
Emphasize :: Emphasize (v. t.) To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase..
Sempstress :: Sempstress (n.) A seamstress.
Tine :: Tine (n.) Trouble; distress; teen.
Anguish :: Anguish (n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress..
Distrain :: Distrain (v. i.) To levy a distress.
Misery :: Misery (n.) Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Needful :: Needful (a.) Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
Dreary :: Dreary (superl.) Sorrowful; distressful.
Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..
Carking :: Carking (a.) Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares..
Empress :: Empress (n.) A sovereign mistress.
Anguish :: Anguish (v. t.) To distress with extreme pain or grief.
Severe :: Severe (superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold..
Mistress :: Mistress (n.) A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it..
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation..
Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another..
Mistress :: Mistress (n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.
Seamstressy :: Seamstressy (n.) The business of a seamstress.
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