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Verb stress has 3 senses
- stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
--1 is one way to express, show, evince
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- stress, accent, accentuate - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
--2 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- try, strain, stress - test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
--3 is one way to afflict
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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