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say it: strest
stressed is an adjective meaning "suffering severe physical strain or distress". It carries 2 recorded senses.
suffering severe physical strain or distress
“he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing”
bearing a stress or accent
“an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stressed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.