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— English words —

• stress n. (Biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
• stress n. (Biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
• stress n. (Countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that…
• stress n. (Countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
• stress n. (Uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
• stress n. (Countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised…
• stress n. (Countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention…
• stress n. (Uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
• stress n. Obsolete form of distress.
• stress n. (Scotland, law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
• stress v. (Transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
• stress v. (Transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
• stress v. (Intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
• stress v. (Transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
• stress v. (Transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
• stress v. (Transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
• -stress suff. Female equivalent of -ster.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Danish - Icelandic - Swedish
  • stress n. Stress.
• Indonesian
  • stress n. Nonstandard spelling of stres.
  • stress adj. Nonstandard spelling of stres.
• Norwegian bokmål
  • stress v. Imperative of stresse.

— English words, defined in French —

• stress n. (Psychologie) Stress, surmenage.
• stress n. (Linguistique) Accent, accent tonique.
• stress n. (Mécanique, Physique) Contrainte.
• stress n. Tension (grande application, effort continu ; état mental ou émotionnel intense).
• stress v. (Mécanique, Physique) Créer une contrainte mécanique. Appliquer de la force à (un corps ou une structure)…
• stress v. (Linguistique) Accentuer, souligner.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• stress s. Tensión.
• stress s. Énfasis.
• stress s. Acento.
• stress s. Estrés.
• stress v. Hacer hincapié.
• stress v. Acentuar.
• stress v. Tensar, Presionar.
• stress v. Estresar.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• stress s. (Prosódia) acento.
• stress s. Esforço.
• stress s. Peso.
• stress s. (Medicina e Psicologia) estresse; estricção.
• stress s. (Engenharia e Física) tensão; estricção.
• stress s. Influência desagradável.
• stress s. Ênfase.
• stress s. Violência.
• stress v. Pressionar; exercer pressão sobre.
• stress v. Dar ênfase a.
• stress v. (Prosódia) pronunciar com acento.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• stress s. (Fisica), (meccanica) tensione, sollecitazione, sforzo.
• stress s. (Fisiologia) tensione, sforzo, stress.
• stress s. Spinta, pressione.
• stress s. (Linguistica) accento (tonico), accentazione.
• stress s. (Metrica), (musica) accento.
• stress s. (Senso figurato) accento, rilievo, risalto, enfasi.
• stress s. (Linguistica) accentare, mettere l’accento su, segnare l’accento su.
• stress s. (Senso figurato) sottolineare, far rilevare, mettere in evidenza, mettere in rilievo.
• stress s. Sottoporre a tensione.
• stress s. Sollecitare, sottoporre a sollecitazioni.

— In German —

• stress V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stressen.
• Stress S. Psychologie: anhaltende geistige, seelische oder körperliche…
• Stress S. Umgangssprachlich: Ärger, Druck.
• Stress S. Geologie: einseitig gerichteter Druck, zum Beispiel bei Gesteinsumwandlung.
• Stress S. Biologie: Reaktion eines Organismus auf die Einwirkung übermäßiger…

— In Dutch —

• stress n. (Medisch) (psychische) zware spanning, geestelijke druk (uit de omgeving).
• stress n. Paniek.

— In French —

• stress n.m. Réaction à une agression par un agent extérieur, dont l’intensité…
• stress n.m. L’agression en elle-même.
• stress n.m. (Agriculture) (Familier) État d’une plante ou d’une culture…

— In Portuguese —

• stress s. (Estrangeirismo) ver estresse ^{(português do Brasil)} ou stresse…

— In Italian —

• stress s. (Forestierismo), (psicologia), (medicina), (psichiatria)…
• stress s. (Forestierismo) (scherzoso) chi rompe le scatole.

98 English words from 21 English definitions

across act additional agent aggressing Aggression agitated also animal applied apply area argument attempt attention being Biology body boundary cause causing chemical conditions Countable discussion distrained distraining distress distribution emotional Emphasis emphasise equivalent externally feature Female force form having human human␣being Imperative infective informal internal Intransitive language law loosely Nonstandard Obsolete of␣a organism other particular per person phonetics physical physics placed point pressure previous raised response restore resulting Scotland small speaking spelling spoken -ster strain stress stresse strictly structure suffer suffered suprasegmental syllable that the the␣thing thing toward Transitive Uncountable unit whether which within word words worry written

36 English words from 48 foreign definitions

accent agent Agriculture application auf Brasil chi com corps culture Dar des die dont druk effort far force grande in␣rilievo intense mental par Person Peso Physique rilievo scatole Singular spanning stress stresse structure Tension ver Verbs

2 foreign words from 21 English definitions

ster stres

110 foreign words from 48 foreign definitions

accentazione accento accent␣tonique Accentuer acento Acentuar agression Aktiv anhaltende Appliquer Ärger bei Beispiel Biologie continu contrainte Créer de␣la desagradável Druck eines einseitig Einwirkung elle elle-même émotionnel ênfase enfasi Énfasis Engenharia Esforço Estrangeirismo Estrés Estresar estresse état evidenza exercer extérieur Familier figurato Física Fisiologia Forestierismo geestelijke geistige Geologie gerichteter Hacer hincapié Imperativ Influência intensité körperliche Linguistica Linguistique mécanique meccanica medicina Medisch même Metrica musica oder omgeving Organismus Paniek plante português português␣do␣Brasil Präsens Presionar pressão Pressionar pressione pronunciar Prosódia psichiatria psicologia psychische Psychologie Réaction Reaktion risalto rompe scherzoso seelische Senso Senso␣figurato sforzo sobre sollecitazione sollecitazioni souligner Spinta stressen surmenage tensão Tensar Tensión tensione tonico tonique übermäßiger uit Umgangssprachlich une Violência zum zum␣Beispiel

55 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

stresse stressy stressed stressee stresses stressor stressees stressful stressier stressing stresslet stressors stress␣out stressable stress␣ball stressfree stress-free stressiest stressless stresslets stress␣mark stress␣test stresswise stress␣balls stressed-out stressed␣out stresses␣out stressfully stress␣marks stressosome stressproof stress␣puppy stress␣tests stress-timed stress␣accent stressbuster stressedness stressing␣out stresslessly stressogenic stressosomes stressability stress␣accents stressbusters stressbusting stressfulness stress␣puppies stress␣fracture stress␣function stresslessness +5 words

220 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

mistresse mistressy destressed destresser destresses distressed distresser distresses eustressed eustresses fostresses hostresses instressed instresses jestresses mastresses mistressed mistresses Mistresses mistressly pastresses restressed restresses unstressed unstresses destressers destressing de-stressing distressers distressest distresseth distressful distressing eustressful eustressing geostresses instressing manstresses misstressed misstresses mistressdom mistressing mobstresses nonstressed nonstresses nonstressor popstresses prestressed pre-stressed prestresses +170 words

128 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

destress de-stress distress eustress eu-stress fostress hostress instress jestress mastress mistress Mistress pastress restress unstress geostress isostress manstress misstress mobstress monstress nonstress popstress prestress punstress tapstress webstress adjustress ancestress antistress anti-stress backstress cloistress cryostress forestress fuckstress gamestress gangstress genostress huckstress hypostress impostress infostress investress kinkstress ministress mitostress osmostress overstress pollstress +78 words

14 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ess ESS -ess Ess. res RES Res. -ress str STR str. tres tress Tress

12 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ert ERT ERTs rts RTs RTS ser SER ser. SERT SERTs SSE

20 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

asserts resists russets Sastres sesters Sesters Setsers sisters Sisters Sostres stresse stressy struses tossers trasses tresses Tresses trusses Trusses tussers

9 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

rests RSSes RTSes SERTs SRSes SSREs tress Tress TRSes

7 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

siress strass Strebs streps Stresa strews Streys

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

tress Tress

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