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STRESS
- physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation
- state resulting from a stress
- rain pressure the environment is under stress to the point of collapse Joseph Shoben
- to place emphasis on [v STRESSED, STRESSES, STRESSING]
- constraining force or influence as
- force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another body or body part
- phasis weight lay stress on a point
- tense effort or exertion
- tensity of utterance given to a speech sound, syllable, or word producing relative loudness
- syllable having relative force or prominence
- cent 6a