Definition of Destress

1. Verb. Reduce the emphasis.

Exact synonyms: De-emphasise, De-emphasize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Reduce

Definition of Destress

1. Verb. To reduce the stresses in a material ¹

2. Verb. To reduce emphasis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destress

destitute of(p)
destituted
destitutely
destituteness
destitutenesses
destitutes
destituting
destitution
destitutions
destock
destocking
destratification
destratifications
destratificator
destratificators
destress (current term)
destressification
destressing
destreza
destrier
destriers
destrin
destroi
destroy
destroyable
destroyed
destroyed jeans
destroyer
destroyer escort

Literary usage of Destress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"The destress was very great ! It is a very unhappy & melancholly Event. 28. ... A day of destress & Sorrow never to lie forgotten by me. ..."

2. Publications by Parish Register Society, London, London Parish Register Society, Florida State Historical Society, Deland, Deland Florida State Historical Society, Reparations Commission, North Carolina Historical Commission, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Yorkshire (1903)
"... from time taken to detain & keep untill arrears thereof & all reasonable charges and expenses for y" taking such destress or ..."

3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1917)
"How can it be jest in me to hurt and destress my brothers to bring my father into a compliance ... How can it be right for the Congress to destress tene ..."

4. American Druggist (1888)
"Will you please give me a subscription for some modine for a destress in the ... and I have a destress of bearing down always and I can't taste anything for ..."

5. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1902)
"But I hop if the Militia up here are to have eany Pay or Reward for there Serves dun, that they could have it; it woold Releve many that are in destress, ..."

6. A Documentary History of Chelsea: Including the Boston Precincts of by Mellen Chamberlain, Jenny Chamberlain Watts, William Richard Cutter, Massachusetts Historical Society (1908)
"... notwithstand* the utmost diligence and Frugality of its Inhabitants, as justly astonishes all acquainted with its present poverty & destress, ..."

7. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"... impatient under the inconveniences and destress which they suffer from the restraints on their commerce, urged and intreated nay voyage hither, ..."

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