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brit:
1. (Cause of) discomfort.
2. Serious danger.
3. An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
4. A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
5. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
1. A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
2. Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
3. 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.
4. Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
5. Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
6. The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
7. Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
8. Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
9. Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
1. To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
2. To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
3. To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
4. To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
5. To emphasise (words in speaking).
6. To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.