See Also: Sestamibi Exercise Stress Test (Sestamibi stress test, stress perfusion scan, stress Sestamibi)(health)
Thallium Exercise Stress Test (Stress thallium test, Perfusion scan)(health)
Metabolic Exercise Stress Test (also called metabolic stress test)(health)
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stress verb1 trans. ME.
[Orig. aphet. from Old French estrecier, ult. from Latin strictus (see STRESS noun); later senses from the noun.]
Compel or constrain (a person); restrict the liberty of, confine, (a person). ME-M16.
Subject to (freq. financial) hardship; afflict, trouble, oppress. Now rare. M16.
Subject to mechanical, physical, physiological, or psychological stress or strain; overwork, fatigue. M16.
Country Life Transfer to a new environment stresses the calves. Road Racing & Training Stressing your body this way..will improve your use of oxygen. Engineering Be sure that bolts are correctly stressed. Times We don't have to stress the boat or the crew.
Lay stress on, emphasize, (a word, phrase, fact, idea, etc.); spec. place a stress accent on (a syllable). M19.
R. Bridges It saved the monotony of a pentameter to stress the penultimate. G. Lord 'I want it done very, very neatly,' she stressed. R. Fraser At pains to stress the wild..nature of the inhabitants. L. Gordon Eliot's play stresses that Becket's sainthood was not achieved without struggle.
stressa'bility noun (Linguistics) the quality of being stressable M20.
stressable adjective (Linguistics) able to be stressed M20.