Stress Caused Extra Stres Examples High Syllable Things

• emotional/mental stress
• to suffer from stress
• to relieve/reduce/alleviate stress
• things can easily go wrong when people are under stress.

stress

1. pressure or worry caused by the problems in somebody’s life
• SEE ALSO post-traumatic stress disorder
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/post-traumatic-stress-disorder
• emotional/mental stress
• to suffer from stress
• to relieve/reduce/alleviate stress
• Things can easily go wrong when people are under stress.
• The incident has caused enormous stress and anxiety to my family.
• She failed to withstand the stresses and strains of public life.
• stress-related illnesses
• stress management (= dealing with stress)
• The release of the stress hormone cortisol is part of the human stress response.
• Stress is often a factor in the development of long-term sickness.

Extra Examples

• An overcrowded workplace can be a major source of stress.
• He broke under stress and had to leave.
• He's been under a lot of stress lately.
• He's had to give up his job as leader of the project—he just couldn't take the stress.
• Many workers experience a high level of stress in their daily life.
• Physical exercise is a great stress reliever.
• Separation is a time of high emotional stress.
• Staff are encouraged to go on stress management courses.
• The high mortgage payments put them under severe financial stress.
• The program helps workers with work-related and family stress.
• There are many things an employer can do to ease employees' stress.
• Tiredness is one of the most common symptoms of stress.
• an illness brought on by stress
• compensation claims for undue stress in the workplace
• high stress levels
• the daily stress of teaching
2. physical pressure put on something that can damage it or make it lose its shape
• When you have an injury you start putting stress on other parts of your body.
• Little is known about the effects of water stress on plants.
• The building was condemned because of the damage caused by excessive heat stress.
• Different organisms react differently to environmental stress (= damage to the environment caused by human activity or natural events).
• a stress fracture of the foot (= one caused by such pressure)

Extra Examples

• Avoid exercise that puts undue stress on the knees.
• Cycling puts very little stress on the joints.
• Engineers calculated the stresses borne by each of the bridge supports.
• He was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right foot.
• Some woods warp under stress.
• Standing all day puts stress on your feet.
• Stress is applied to the wood to make it bend.
• The buttresses are subjected to constant stress.
• The majority of sports injuries are due to excessive mechanical stress on joints, ligaments and muscles.
• The movements set up stresses in the earth's crust.
• The tower exerts an enormous stress on the walls.
• There is equal stress on all parts of the structure.
3. an extra force used when pronouncing a particular word or syllable
• COMPARE intonation
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/intonation
• We worked on pronunciation, stress and intonation.
• There's a stress on the second syllable.
• In ‘strategic’ the stress falls on the second syllable

Extra Examples

• Where does the stress fall in ‘psychological’?
• The first syllable takes the stress.
• Mark the primary stress in each word.
• Italian words usually have the main stress on the penultimate syllable in the word.
4. special importance given to something
• She lays great stress on punctuality.
• I think the company places too much stress on cost and not enough on quality.

Extra Examples

• There's been a lot of stress on getting drug sellers off the streets.
• a study of child development, with the stress on acquisition of social skills
• I must lay great stress on the need for secrecy.
5. extra force used when making a particular sound in music
6. illness caused by difficult physical conditions
• Those most vulnerable to heat stress are the elderly.

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting hardship or force exerted on a person for the purpose of compulsion): shortening of distress, or partly from Old French estresse ‘narrowness, oppression’, based on Latin strictus ‘drawn tight’, past participle of stringere ‘tighten, draw tight’.