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present participle of stress
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1
to experience concern or anxiety
- the restaurant manager has a tendency to stress about every little thing that goes wrong
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2
to make more apparent
- his bad performance only stressed what I'd been saying all along
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3
to indicate the importance of by centering attention on
- the doctor stressed the importance of exercise
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