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stress

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"

difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson

special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"

put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"

to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

Synonyms:

• Alexandrine,
• accent,
• accentuate,
• accentuation,
• ache,
• aching,
• adverse circumstances,
• adversity,
• affliction,
• aggravation,
• ambivalence,
• ambivalence of impulse,
• amphibrach,
• amphimacer,
• anacrusis,
• anapest,
• anguish,
• annoyance,
• antispast,
• anxiety,
• arsis,
• assault,
• bacchius,
• bear,
• bear upon,
• bearing,
• beat,
• belabor,
• blight,
• blow,
• boost,
• buck,
• bull,
• bulldoze,
• bummer,
• bump,
• bump against,
• bunt,
• burden,
• butt,
• butt against,
• cadence,
• caesura,
• care,
• catalexis,
• chloriamb,
• chloriambus,
• clutch,
• colon,
• compulsion,
• concern,
• concernment,
• conflict,
• consequence,
• consequentiality,
• consideration,
• constraint,
• counterpoint,
• cram,
• cramp,
• cretic,
• crisis,
• cross,
• crowd,
• crunch,
• curse,
• cut,
• dactyl,
• dactylic hexameter,
• decompensation,
• diaeresis,
• difficulties,
• difficulty,
• dig,
• dimeter,
• dipody,
• distress,
• disturb,
• dochmiac,
• dolor,
• downer,
• drive,
• dwell on,
• elbow,
• elegiac,
• elegiac couplet,
• elegiac pentameter,
• emergency,
• emotional shock,
• emphasis,
• emphasize,
• epitrite,
• excellence,
• exigency,
• external frustration,
• feature,
• feminine caesura,
• focus on,
• foot,
• force,
• forcefulness,
• frustration,
• give emphasis to,
• goad,
• grief,
• harass,
• hard knocks,
• hard life,
• hard lot,
• hardcase,
• hardship,
• harp on,
• haul,
• head,
• heave,
• heptameter,
• heptapody,
• heroic couplet,
• hexameter,
• hexapody,
• high order,
• high pressure,
• high rank,
• highlight,
• hurt,
• hurtle,
• hustle,
• iamb,
• iambic,
• iambic pentameter,
• ictus,
• imperativeness,
• import,
• importance,
• impulse,
• impulsion,
• injury,
• insistence,
• interest,
• ionic,
• irk,
• irritation,
• italicize,
• jab,
• jam,
• jingle,
• jog,
• joggle,
• jolt,
• jostle,
• lesion,
• level of stress,
• lilt,
• mark,
• masculine caesura,
• materiality,
• measure,
• mental shock,
• mental strain,
• merit,
• meter,
• metrical accent,
• metrical foot,
• metrical group,
• metrical unit,
• metrics,
• metron,
• molossus,
• moment,
• mora,
• movement,
• nasty blow,
• nervous strain,
• nervous tension,
• note,
• nudge,
• numbers,
• overaccentuate,
• overemphasize,
• overexert,
• overexertion,
• overextend,
• overextension,
• overstrain,
• overstress,
• overtax,
• overtaxing,
• paeon,
• pain,
• pang,
• paramountcy,
• passion,
• pentameter,
• pentapody,
• period,
• pile drive,
• pinch,
• place emphasis on,
• play up,
• plight,
• point up,
• poke,
• precedence,
• predicament,
• preeminence,
• press,
• pressure,
• primacy,
• primary stress,
• priority,
• proceleusmatic,
• prod,
• prominence,
• prosodics,
• prosody,
• psychological stress,
• pull,
• punch,
• punctuate,
• push,
• pyrrhic,
• quantity,
• rack,
• ram,
• ram down,
• rash impulse,
• rattle,
• rhythm,
• rhythmic pattern,
• rhythmical stress,
• rigor,
• rub in,
• run,
• run against,
• sea of troubles,
• secondary stress,
• self-importance,
• shake,
• shock,
• shoulder,
• shove,
• significance,
• sore,
• sore spot,
• spasm,
• spondee,
• spotlight,
• sprung rhythm,
• star,
• strain,
• strain every nerve,
• straining,
• stress accent,
• stress and strain,
• stress of life,
• stress pattern,
• stressfulness,
• stretch,
• stroke,
• suffering,
• superiority,
• supremacy,
• sweat blood,
• swing,
• syzygy,
• tamp,
• tautness,
• tax,
• taxing,
• tender spot,
• tense,
• tenseness,
• tension,
• tertiary stress,
• tetrameter,
• tetrapody,
• tetraseme,
• thesis,
• throes,
• thrust,
• torque,
• torsion,
• trauma,
• traumatism,
• trial,
• tribrach,
• tribulation,
• trimeter,
• tripody,
• triseme,
• trochee,
• trouble,
• troubles,
• try,
• tug,
• underline,
• underscore,
• upset,
• urge,
• urgency,
• vale of tears,
• value,
• vicissitude,
• weak stress,
• weight,
• worry,
• worth,
• wound,
• wrench