STRESS

I. noun see: di~ Date: 14th century constraining force or influence: as, a 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, the deformation caused in a body by such a force, a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation, a state resulting from a ~, strain , pressure , emphasis , weight , intense effort or exertion, intensity of utterance given to a speech sound, syllable, or word producing relative loudness, 5. relative force or prominence of sound in verse, a syllable having relative force or prominence, accent 6a, II. verb Date: 1545 transitive verb to subject to physical or psychological ~ , to subject to phonetic ~ ; accent , to lay ~ on ; emphasize , intransitive verb to feel ~