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stressed-out

[strest-out]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.

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Having received news that the feds may be waiting to arrest him at the end of this vacation, the stressed-out financier daydreams about putting a pistol to his head and pulling the trigger.

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Best known for hosting Animal Planet's "My Cat From Hell," Galaxy has a robust library of instructional and advisory YouTube videos and a gift for putting stressed-out cats and people more at ease.

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The fictional reality show, which has nearly six million followers between TikTok and Instagram, is centered on Bistro Huddy’s staff and customers, with a cast of more than a dozen characters played by Mr. Talbert, including Joey, the salty head chef who is dating Amber, the hostess; Terry, the stressed-out manager; and Tim and Pam, a Southern couple who punctuate the end of their sentences with a hearty “Roll Tide!”

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�� she views as playful antics look like stressed-out apes bouncing off their steel mesh walls.

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One of p53’s roles is to orchestrate cellular senescence, telling stressed-out, unruly cells to stop dividing before they cause problems.

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�� does stressed-out mean?

Stressed-out means experiencing a lot of emotional stress.The adjective stressed can mean the same thing. Both terms often imply that the level of stress is intense or higher than usual—that stress has built up and is becoming hard to deal with.The phrasal verb stress out can mean to experience stress, as in Don’t stress out about the meeting—it’s not a big deal. It can also mean to cause someone to experience stress, as in You’re really stressing me out. The term stressed-out comes from the past tense of this sense: someone who is stressed-out has been stressed out by someone or something (or, as is often the case, by a combination of different factors).Stressed-out is commonly spelled without a hyphen, as stressed out.Example: During the week of final exams, the library is filled with stressed-out students frantically trying to study.

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