Stress Stressed I Stres Importance Good Education Told

• he stressed the importance of a good education.
• i must stress that everything i've told you is strictly confidential.
• ‘there is,’ johnson stressed, ‘no real alternative.’
• it must be stressed that this disease is very rare.

stress

1. to emphasize a fact, an idea, etc.
• He stressed the importance of a good education.
• I must stress that everything I've told you is strictly confidential.
• ‘There is,’ Johnson stressed, ‘no real alternative.’
• It must be stressed that this disease is very rare.
• I cannot stress too much how important this is.
2. to give extra force to a word or syllable when saying it
• You stress the first syllable in ‘happiness’.
• You stress the first syllable in ‘happiness’.
• ‘Let nothing … nothing,’ he emphasized the word , ‘tempt you.’
3. to become or make somebody become too anxious or tired to be able to relax
• I try not to stress out when things go wrong.
• Driving in cities really stresses me (out).

Extra Examples

• Doctors have rightly stressed the importance of exercise.
• He stressed the point very strongly that all these services cost money.
• I can’t stress enough that security is of the highest importance.
• I must stress that we still know very little about this disease.
• It is worth stressing that this was only a relatively small survey.
• Private schools tend to stress the more academic subjects.
• She has constantly stressed the government’s poor record in this area.
• She is at pains to stress the cultural differences between the two countries.
• I must stress that everything I’ve told you is strictly confidential.
• I want to stress how important this work is.
• Observers stressed the necessity for the ceasefire to be observed.
• She stressed the importance of a good education.
• She stressed the need for cooperation with the authorities.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they stress
• he / she / it stresses
• past simple stressed
• past participle stressed
• -ing form stressing

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’.