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de-stress

de-stress is the alternative form of destress.

Meaning of destress

Verb

destress (third-person singular simple present destresses, present participle destressing, simple past and past participle destressed)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the physical stresses in (a material).
  2. (ergative) To reduce the emotional stress in (another person); to reduce the stress in oneself.
  3. (transitive) To reduce the emphasis or stress on; de-emphasize.

Forms of de-stress

third-person singular presentde-stresses
present participlede-stressing
past participlede-stressed
pastde-stressed

Origin of de-stress

From de- + stress.

Questions about de-stress

What is de-stress the alternative form of?
De-stress is the alternative form of destress.

Words near de-stress in the dictionary

  1. de-spin
  2. de-spinning
  3. de-spins
  4. de-spun
  5. de-Stalinization
  6. de-stress
  7. de-stressed
  8. de-stresses
  9. de-stressing
  10. de-Sukarnoization
  11. de-Sunnification

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Adapted from Wiktionary: de-stress (page history and authors); destress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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