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stressing out

stressing out is the present participle and gerund of stress out.

Meaning of stress out

Verb

stress out (third-person singular simple present stresses out, present participle stressing out, simple past and past participle stressed out)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become stressed.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To inflict stress on someone or something.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To inflict mental, emotional, or psychological tension on (someone).
    • Will you stop worrying? You're stressing me out.

Questions about stressing out

What is stressing out the present participle and gerund of?
Stressing out is the present participle and gerund of stress out.

Words near stressing out in the dictionary

  1. stressheads
  2. stressier
  3. stressiest
  4. stressify
  5. stressing
  6. stressing out
  7. stressless
  8. stresslessly
  9. stresslessness
  10. stresslet
  11. stresslets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stressing out (page history and authors); stress out (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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