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stress: Details

Extended reference for the word stress.

Synonyms

Usage Examples

Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.

Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.

“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.

Common Misspellings

No commonly recorded misspellings for this word.