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"he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"adjectivesuffering severe physical strain or distress
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"an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"adjectivebearing a stress or accent
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Definition that contains stressed
- upset mildly physically distressed
- mercy alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed
- rhythm the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
- turner United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)
- bacon English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
- robinson United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)
- clouded made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
- besiege cause to feel distressed or worried
- pyrrhic a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
- pyrrhic of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables