Adjective stressed has 2 senses
  1. stressed, distressed, in a bad way - suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"; "the victim was in a bad way and needed immediate attention"
    Antonym: untroubled (indirect, via troubled)
  2. stressed - bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
    Antonyms:
    unstressed, feminine, short, unemphatic, unaccented, light, weak
,Verb stress has 3 senses
  1. stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
    --1 is one way to express, show, evince
    Derived form: noun stress4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  2. stress, accent, accentuate - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
    --2 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
    Derived form: noun stress1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. try, strain, stress - test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
    --3 is one way to afflict
    Derived forms: noun stress5, noun stress2, noun stressor1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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