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stress
noun as in emphasis
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accent, accentuation, beat, force, import, importance, significance, urgency
noun as in physical or mental pressure
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agony, anxiety, burden, crunch, fear, hardship, hassle, heat, intensity, nervousness, strain, tension, trauma, worry
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affliction, alarm, albatross, apprehensiveness, clutch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, impatience, misgiving, mistrust, oppression, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tensity, tightness, traction, trepidation, trial, urgency
Weak matches
verb as in accentuate, emphasize
Example Sentences
Those “wasteful” studies were studying the effects of stress on rats—and how that stress might be increased if those rats had a lot of previous alcohol exposure.
It’s something important to study and understand for the many people living with both alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder.
In a world of constraints and an environment under stress, why should he have to share with them?
Going forward, if you want reliable information you have to reintroduce the regulations that stress facts over profits.
If you want reliable information, you have to reintroduce regulations that stress facts over profits.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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