Stress

Physics and engineering

Stress is a kind of pressure. There are various kinds of stresses that can be put on objects, including tension, compression, shear stress and torsional stresses.

People

Stress is a kind of pressure. When people are under pressure to do something, or in fear that something unpleasant might be done to them, they get stressed.

Stress can make people angry and irritable, fearful or depressed and dead.