stressed

adjective

1. suffering severe physical strain or distress

- he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing

Similar word(s): troubled, distressed

2. bearing a stress or accent

- an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'

Similar word(s): emphasised, emphasized, emphatic, masculine, accented

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of stress