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stress position in British Englishnounan enforced body position, applied esp in the interrogation of detainees, which causes the victim pain by concentrating a large amount of his or her weight on a small number of muscles, joints, etc Examples of 'stress position' in a sentencestress position It's as if that 'stress position' video was the whole story.I was held in a stress position, my arms behind my head, for 45 minutes.They put us in the stress position and told us not to make unnecessary movements.Whenever the prisoners failed to maintain the stress position, they were punched and kicked, it is alleged.There they were made to stand in the stress position - spread-eagled, legs apart, back arched inwards, fingertips against the wall.Captors held him in stress positions for days at a time.We were split up, then ordered into stress positions.It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation.Victims will be manhandled, forced into stress positions, denied sleep, isolated from each other and subjected to sensory deprivation.They did not waterboard or put people in stress positions, but they used the answers derived from those 'interviews'. |