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单词 stressed
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stressedadj.n.

Brit. /strɛst/, U.S. /strɛst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: stress v., -ed suffix1; stress n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: Partly < stress v. + -ed suffix1, and partly < stress n. + -ed suffix2. Compare later distressed adj.With sense A. 3 compare prestressed adj. 1.
A. adj.
1. Distressed, afflicted, suffering. Cf. sense A. 4. Obsolete.In quot. 1559 as noun.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > [adjective]
angeredc1275
miseasedc1390
woea1398
forpainedc1400
labouringc1425
passive?a1439
painedc1450
loaden1542
sored1557
stressed1559
pinched1566
grieved1586
suffering1609
heavy-laden1611
undergoinga1616
vulned1628
loaded1661
afflicted1690
sick as a parrot1705
crosseda1732
wrung1862
traumatized1935
fraught1966
1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. B3v With a certain choise and judgement to giue passage and safetie to the stressed.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y Stird with pitty of the stressed plight Of this sad realme.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 328 Stress'd Saylers.
1643 Humble Remonstr. & Complaint Prisoners 7 You may plainly perceive..how..many thousands of poore stressed men..are, as it were, killed alive by the daily torments for their debts.
1732 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life & Death D. Cargill 37 He was very much stress'd ere he wan to the Place.
2.
a. Given particular stress or emphasis; esp. (of a point, statement, idea, etc.) emphasized as being of special importance.
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1824 Family Picture Gallery IV. iv. 90 ‘Will you indulge me with your hand for the second set?’... ‘And grace me with it for the third?’... Augustus Cecil took advantage of the stressed words the brothers De Morland had used, and he ventured to say,—‘And will you bless me with it for the fourth?’
1920 Writer's Monthly (U.S.) Nov. 344 The stressed point is that visual verse signifies the same passion for and return to significance in poetry that crops out in all the arts every so often.
1994 Financial Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. 32 A third, but less stressed, aspect of the message it wishes to convey.
b. Linguistics and Prosody. Of a word, syllable, etc.: pronounced with stress.
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1840 R. Cull in Garrick's Mode reading Liturgy (new ed.) 80 The melody of joy alternately rises and falls in pitch, but the rise is on the stressed syllables.
1901 Mod. Lang. Notes 16 150/1 As for medial d, when it immediately follows a stressed vowel it is often omitted in informal speech.
1991 Ling. Inq. 22 263 Resolution follows from the two-mora requirement for the head of a stressed foot.
2020 A. McMahon Introd. to Eng. Phonol. (ed. 2) x. 130 Stress is a culminative property, signalled by a number of subsidiary phonetic factors, which work together to pick out a stressed syllable from the unstressed ones which surround it.
3. Engineering. Subjected to mechanical stress (stress n. 4d); spec. = prestressed adj. 1.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [adjective] > subjected to stress
stressed1862
1862 Proc. Royal Soc. 1860–62 11 481 Greater cold is required to freeze water into ice on the stressed crystal than on a crystal free from stress.
1916 Jrnl. Inst. Locomotive Engineers 6 24 This line of hard or stressed metal becomes electro-positive to the surrounding plate and a current leaves this portion, causing an electro-chemical change in the form of local corrosion.
1954 Archit. Rev. 115 424 A stressed concrete diagrid with in situ concrete joints cast between short precast units.
2015 G. S. Schajer & C. Abraham in N. Sottos et al. Exper. & Appl. Mech. VI. xii. 89 The deformation of the surrounding material caused by the removal of the stressed material within the hole.
4. Experiencing or subjected to physiological, mental, or emotional stress (cf. stress n. 6, 7).Cf. later stressed out adj. at Compounds.
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1932 F. W. Herbert & J. W. Hubbard Verticillium Wilt Cotton Plant (U.S. Dept. Agric. Circ. No. 211) 7 They were practically defoliated and presented the appearance of severely stressed plants.
1953 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 753/2 They found 4 to 8 μg. of adrenal steroid in the adrenal-vein plasma of stressed rats.
1974 Fortune Jan. 103/2 Perhaps a collision on the road—stressed people are more accident-prone.
1989 I. D. Yalom Love's Executioner viii. 206 It's best not to make irreversible decisions when you're highly stressed.
2007 Washington Post 21 Aug. (Home ed.) a15/1 Even in the midst of affluence, voters feel stressed.
B. n.
With the. People experiencing emotional or psychological stress, as a class. Cf. sense A. 4.Compare also the use in quot. 1559 at sense A. 1.
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1988 Financial Times 30 July (Health & Fitness section) 13/1 They are places where the overworked, the stressed, the mildly depressed can refresh themselves.
2015 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 1 Aug. a6 Headlines that tout vitamin drips as a cure-all for the stressed, the anxious, the depressed, the dehydrated, the immune-weakened and the overweight.

Compounds

stressed out adj. originally U.S. experiencing mental or emotional stress; debilitated or exhausted as a result of this.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > other spec.
forsung?a1366
fordreamed?a1400
forplaint1423
forwallowed1423
forcrieda1600
overdriven1653
over-drove1751
mooth1768
forridden1820
fatigued1853
stale1856
fucked-out1862
wooden-weary1888
blind-weary.1923
partied-out1950
stressed out1980
1980 Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.) 4. Feb. d4/6 How do you protect yourself from becoming so stressed-out that all you can do is just get by?
1983 MacNeil/Lehrer Rep. 7 Jan. (TV transcript, no. 1900) 7 The place where people can bring their children when they were feeling very, very stressed out.
1990 Daily Tel. 1 May 9/7 Half of Britain's personnel managers admit to having to push stressed-out employees into taking holidays.
2021 @saks_f1lth 8 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 14 Oct. 2021) God I was WAY too stressed out.
stressed skin n. Engineering an outer covering of an aircraft or other structure which in combination with a rigid frame is designed to bear mechanical stress and provide strength and stiffness.Usually as a modifier, as in stressed skin construction, stressed skin structure, etc.
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1924 A. Rohrbach in Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 28 656 The all-duralumin construction with its stressed skin is the only way to secure to the aeroplane structure all the valuable qualities of steel ships.
1951 Archit. Rev. 110 342/1 The roof is of stressed-skin plywood construction formed by two skins of exterior ply panel grade on an internal timber framework.
1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 44/3 The application of aluminium in stressed skin structures such as offshore living quarters is now proven technology.
2002 RAF News 25 Oct. 17/1 The aircraft is a design by Adolf Rohrbach, a German designer who was largely responsible for the introduction and development of stressed skin construction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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