Noun

(countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by

(countable, physics) externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.

(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.

(uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.

Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.

(uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.

(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).

(Spenser)

(Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

Noun

A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

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, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

(obsolete) Pain or stinging.

* {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717

, passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;

* Temple

I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.