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stress sb out
— phrasal verb with stress /stres/ verbDefinition
› to make someone feel very nervous and worried: Interviews always stress me out.Causing anxiety and worryMaking people sad, shocked and upset
(Definition of stress sb out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
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- alarming adjective
- catch up with sb phrasal verb (CAUSE PROBLEMS)
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- concerning adjective
- disturb verb (WORRY)
- dread verb
- flap verb (BEHAVE NERVOUSLY)
- frighten sb/sth away/off phrasal verb
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw verb (FEEL WORRIED)
- harass verb
- stressful adjective
- tense adjective (NERVOUS)
- troubling adjective
- unnerve verb
- unsettling adjective (WORRYING)
- weigh on sb/sth phrasal verb
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