stressing
- 1Present participle and gerund of stress.
The coach kept stressing the need for teamwork throughout practice.
Engineers are stressing the bridge components to see how much load they can bear.
Note
One -ing form carries every meaning of the verb, from the engineer's load test to the speaker's emphasis. Most uses take an object (stressing a beam, a syllable, a point), but the informal sense of worrying stands alone: she has been stressing all week. As a gerund it works as a noun, so stressing the second syllable can be a sentence's subject, with its object still following directly.
She has been stressing all week about the move.
Stressing the second syllable changes the word from a noun to a verb.
stressing is a form of stress
stress, verb: To give emphasis to a particular point in an argument or discussion. Full entry
- Spelling
- stress → stressing: add -ing
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