Usually means: Causing mental or emotional strain.
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  1. stressing: Merriam-Webster
  2. stressing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stressing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Stressing, stressing: Wordnik
  5. stressing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. stressing: Wiktionary
  7. stressing: Dictionary.com
  8. stressing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. stressing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stressing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stressing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stressing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. stressing: Medical dictionary

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  1. stressing: Idioms

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  1. stressing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stress)

noun:  (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
noun:  (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
noun:  (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
noun:  (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
noun:  (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
noun:  (countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
noun:  (countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
noun:  (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
noun:  (Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
verb:  (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
verb:  (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
verb:  (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
verb:  (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
verb:  (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
noun:  Obsolete form of distress. [Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.]
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