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Definition of Destress

1. Verb. Reduce the emphasis.

Definition of Destress

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

2. Verb. To reduce emphasis ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Destress

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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