stress
noun
uk
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/stres/stress noun (WORRY)
under stress People under a lot of stress may experience headaches, minor pains, and sleeping difficulties.
stress-related Massage therapy is good for all stress-related conditions.
stress noun (FORCE)
stress noun (EMPHASIS)
- accentuation
- all day long idiom
- at someone's insistence
- believe
- deadass
- drive your message/point home idiom
- hammer
- highlight
- I should hope/say/think so/not idiom
- impress
- impress something on/upon someone phrasal verb
- insist on doing something phrasal verb
- insistence on something/doing something
- mic
- re-emphasize
- re-stress
- reconfirm
- send a message idiom
- sooth
- spotlight
stress
verb
uk
/stres/ us
/stres/stress verb (EMPHASIZE)
B2 [ T ]
[ + (that) ] He is careful to stress (that) the laboratory's safety standards are the best in the country.
stress the importance of I'd just like to stress the importance of neatness and politeness in this job.
- The bishop stressed the importance of faithfulness in marriage.
- I must stress that these are only preliminary findings.
- I stressed that this was our policy.
- He stressed the importance of fresh fruit and vegetables in the diet.
- The government repeatedly stressed its support for parental choice in the selection of a child's school.
- accentuation
- all day long idiom
- at someone's insistence
- believe
- deadass
- drive your message/point home idiom
- hammer
- highlight
- I should hope/say/think so/not idiom
- impress
- impress something on/upon someone phrasal verb
- insist on doing something phrasal verb
- insistence on something/doing something
- mic
- re-emphasize
- re-stress
- reconfirm
- send a message idiom
- sooth
- spotlight
stress verb (PRONOUNCE)
B2 [ T ]
stress verb (WORRY)
stress verb (CAUSE DIFFICULTIES)
- ask questions of someone/something idiom
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- beset
- dig
- fault line
- lay
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a mess
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of something idiom
- make it difficult for someone to do something
- overload
- pose
- sow the seeds of something idiom
- spell trouble idiom
- store
- store something up phrasal verb
- store up trouble/problems idiom