stressed
strest
- v to stress, single out as important
- v put stress on; utter with an accent
- v test the limits of
- s suffering severe physical strain or distress
he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing - a bearing a stress or accent
an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'
- Scientists found that children whose parents described themselves as stressed and anxious were 50% more likely to develop asthma than kids with non-stressed parents at least .
- Commissioner Alexander Schmidt stressed that the FDA found "no evidence of a public health hazard" from products made with the dye; according to one manufacturer, a human would .
- Even at the best of times, Hong Kong is one of the world's more stressed-out cities.