/stres/
Translation
A worried, tight feeling that comes when you have too much to do or too many problems.
Word origin
A shortened form of distress, and also from Old French estrece meaning narrowness, from Latin strictus meaning drawn tight.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- estrece
- English cognates
- strict, distress
Examples
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"Stress" is the bad feeling that comes from too much work.
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Here "stress" is a feeling you want to get rid of.
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"Stress" is uncountable here, so it has no plural.
Used in
Grammar articles
(8)Adverb position in English: before the verb, after be, and the just, still and already traps
Cleft sentences in English: it was X who, what I need is, and how to move the emphasis
Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things
Past simple tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Present continuous tense: form, spelling and uses
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