ADJ
- acute, considerable, extreme, great, high, severe
- Separation is a time of high emotional stress
- excessive
- greater, increased
- low
- daily
- the daily stress of teaching
- emotional, mental, psychological, social
- economic, financial
- The high mortgage payments put them under severe financial stress
QUANT
- level
- Many workers experience a high level of stress in their daily life
VERB + STRESS
- cause, create
- A divorce causes children great emotional stress
- avoid, remove
- add to, increase
- reduce, relieve
- be under, experience, have, suffer (from)
- He's been under a lot of stress lately
- cope with, handle, manage, stand, take
- He's had to give up his job as leader of the project?he just couldn't take the stress
STRESS + VERB
- bring sth about/on
- an illness brought on by stress
STRESS + NOUN
- level
- high stress levels
- control, management
- Staff are encouraged to go on stress management courses
PREP
- under ~
- He broke under stress and had to leave
PHRASES
- a source of stress
- An overcrowded workplace can be a major source of stress
- a symptom of stress
- Tiredness is one of the most common symptoms of stress
ADJ
- enormous, great
- particular, special
- equal
- undue
VERB + STRESS
- lay, place, put
- I must lay great stress on the need for secrecy
PREP
- with the ~ on
- a study of child development, with the stress on acquisition of social skills
- ~ on
- There's been a lot of stress on getting drug sellers off the streets
ADJ
- main, major, primary, strong
- secondary, weak
- sentence, word
VERB + STRESS
- carry, have, take
- Italian words usually have the main stress on the penultimate syllable in the word. The first syllable takes the stress
- place, put
- mark
- Mark the primary stress in each word
STRESS + VERB
- fall, go
- Where does the stress fall in 'psychological' ?
PREP
- ~ on
- There's a stress on the second syllable
ADJ
- enormous, high
- low
- constant
- equal
- There is equal stress on all parts of the structure
VERB + STRESS
- exert, set up
- The tower exerts an enormous stress on the walls. The movements set up stresses in the earth's crust
- apply, put, subject sth to
- Stress is applied to the wood to make it bend. Standing all day puts stress on your feet. The buttresses are subjected to constant stress
- bear, take, withstand
- increase, reduce
- transfer, transmit
- calculate
- Engineers calculated the stresses borne by each of the bridge supports
PREP
- under ~
- Some woods warp under stress