Etymograph

English

stressify

From stress + -ify.

Formed from stress + -ify

Latin stringō ‘to draw tight together’

Latin distringō ‘to stretch out, apart’

Old French destrecier ‘to distress’

Middle English destresse

English stress

Today it means

verb Make (something) stressful.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “stressify”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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