Definitions
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- verb To
reduce thestresses in a material - verb To
reduce thestress in a person - verb To reduce
emphasis
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- verb reduce the emphasis
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have had really good luck with a rabbit in destress call.
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I have had really good luck with a rabbit in destress call.
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I dunno why but I always crave something sweet with corn muffins K says you need to bake to destress?
Study Break… at 2009
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[1] Your letter seems but half expressd, it is easy for me to conceive that this winter and all future winters will destress you, and render it impossible for you to support 8 children without assistance.
Letter 227 2009
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As I sat here tonight, studying and talking to my friend, K, she had a very wonderful suggestion, “I think you need to bake to destress.”
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My most blatant seizure triggers are stress and sleep deprivation, so I have done everything I can to destress my life - I'm a lot less type-A that I was when I was diagnosed!
Friday! sihaya09 2009
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Anna Kendrick bakes to destress and just wants her favorite hoodie!
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Behind him rode (riding backwards both on a Horse) a lad with a pale Mask, and in the utmost trembling and destress, to represent the fallen Emperor.
Letter 292 2009
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It gives me a chance to destress before I get home.
Blockbuster reports steep drop in earnings: Does anyone visit a video store any more? | EW.com 2009
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Which would be the most unkind or imperious man, he who refus'd without giving any reasons, and consequently leaves the applicant to accuse his covetousness or contempt of destress; or, he who refuses by an exposition of his affairs sufficient for his justification, and sufficient to prove that he had by the party's there mention'd, been ungenerously and ungratefully used?
Letter 228 2009
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