Most Stressed

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables

• A metrical foot in ancient Greek or Latin consisting of two short syllables surrounding one long one (e.g. amāta).

• A metrical foot in modern prosody, consisting of three syllables, the middle one of which is stressed (e.g. Jamaica).