1. Suffering severe physical strain or distress
   "he dropped out of the race, clearly stressed and having difficulty breathing";
   - distressed
    
2. Bearing a stress or accent
   "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in ‘delay’";
   - accented

1. Single out as important; draw attention to (something)
   "Dr. Jones stresses exercise in addition to a change in diet";
   - emphasize, emphasise [Brit], punctuate, accent, accentuate
    
2. Put stress on; utter with an accent
   "In Farsi, you stress the last syllable of each word";
   - accent, accentuate
    
3. Test the limits of
   "You are stressing my patience!";
   - try, strain
    
4. To suffer from stress
   "She's been stressing about her upcoming exams"

See also: emphasised [Brit], emphasized, emphatic, emphatical [rare], masculine, troubled

Type of: afflict, articulate, enounce [archaic], enunciate, evince [formal], express, get, have, pronounce, say, show, sound out, suffer, sustain

Encyclopedia: Stressed