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stressed

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stressed in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. bearing a stress or accent
    "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
    stressed  accented 
  2. suffering severe physical strain or distress
    "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"
    stressed  distressed 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


stressed in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (past of/stress)
  2. (adjective) suffering stress (either physical or mental)
  3. (adjective) (phonetics) having a stress or accent
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