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stress
CEFRB1
/ˈstɹɛs/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
Worry or pressure caused by difficult situations.
- 02
verb
To give special importance to something.
Examples
Haruyo is undoubtedly under stress during this entrance-examination season.
You stress the first syllable in ‘happiness’.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 2
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈʃt͡ʃɹɛs/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
More examples
In contextA closed fist can indicate stress.
Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
phrase stress, prosodic stress
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Origin
noun
From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”). In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.