de-stress

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de-stress

or de·stress (dē′strĕs′, dĕ′-)
intr.v. de-stressed, de-stress·ing, de-stress·es or de·stressed or de·stress·ing or de·stress·es
To relieve one's stress or tension; relax: "After days like that, she'd go home and de-stress by playing video games" (Kristin Henderson).
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de-stress

vb
to become or cause to become less stressed or anxious
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Translations

de-stress

destress [diːˈstrɛs]
vidéstresser
vtdéstresser
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If the density of drilling boreholes is high enough, these plastic areas will be connected each other and thus a larger destressed area will form, leading to the transfer of high stress concentration area into the deep coal wall, as shown in Figure 1.
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While definites are prototypically destressed if outside VP, allowing assignment of SA to the verb (cf.
The data show that pronouns are either fully destressed in the position to the left of adverbs (cf.
To conclude: apart from their generic use, indefinites can hardly ever be fully destressed. Their default position is within VP as identified by sentential accent.
Neeleman and Reinhart (1998: 344f.) observe that scrambled definites to the left of sentential adverbs are prototypically destressed and as such good candidates for D-linking in the spirit of Pesetsky (1987).
In (14c), the destressed definite NP can only be interpreted anaphorically, that is as referring to some specific bird, mentioned in the previous context.
They must scramble to the left of the sentence adverb to be destressed and get the required anaphoric reading.
scrambled (destressed) definites are always discourse-linked, that is anaphoric and thematic;
Placer Dome is focusing on re-establishing mechanised mining in reef packages in the existing Western Areas shaft area which have been destressed by mining out a single narrow reef.