DESTRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does destress mean? 

• DESTRESS (verb)
  The verb DESTRESS has 1 sense:

1. reduce the emphasis

  Familiarity information: DESTRESS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESTRESS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduce the emphasis

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

de-emphasise; de-emphasize; destress

Hypernyms (to "destress" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "destress"):

reduce (destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something