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Subject to or undergo extreme pressure or strain, as from working. For example, I badly need a vacation; I'm just plain stressed out from this job and its aggravations . The verb stress has meant “afflict with hardship” or “distress” since the 16th century, but the phrase stress out , alluding to psychological stress, dates only from the 1940s.Discover More
Example Sentences
The rigorous outfit swapping attendant to royal protocol is said to stress out the duchess—not that the stress shows.
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