Words that rhyme with overstress

• address 0
  n 1: (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored [syn: address, computer address, reference] 2: the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with 3: the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" [syn: address, speech] 4: the manner of speaking to another individual; "he failed in his manner of address to the captain" 5: a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described 6: written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location [syn: address, destination, name and address] 7: the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball 8: social skill [syn: savoir-faire, address] v 1: speak to; "He addressed the crowd outside the window" [syn: address, turn to] 2: give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees" [syn: address, speak] 3: put an address on (an envelope) [syn: address, direct] 4: direct a question at someone 5: address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question 6: greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name" [syn: address, call] 7: access or locate by address 8: act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address] 9: speak to someone [syn: address, accost, come up to] 10: adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
• aggress 0
  v 1: take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack" [syn: attack, aggress]
• ambassadress 0
  n 1: a woman ambassador
• authoress 0
  n 1: a woman author
• caress 0
  n 1: a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it); "he showered her with caresses"; "soft music was a fond caress"; "the caresses of the breeze played over his face" v 1: touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner; "He caressed her face"; "They fondled in the back seat of the taxi" [syn: caress, fondle]
• compress 0
  n 1: a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) v 1: make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" [syn: compress, compact, pack together] [ant: decompress, uncompress] 2: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press]
• congress 0
  n 1: the legislature of the United States government [syn: Congress, United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress] 2: a meeting of elected or appointed representatives 3: a national legislative assembly 4: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]
• decompress 0
  v 1: restore to its uncompressed form; "decompress data" [syn: decompress, uncompress] [ant: compact, compress, pack together] 2: decrease the pressure of; "depressurize the cabin in the air plane" [syn: depressurize, depressurise, decompress] [ant: pressurise, pressurize] 3: become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work" [syn: relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down] [ant: tense, tense up]
• depress 0
  v 1: lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift] 2: lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices" 3: cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir" [syn: lower, depress] 4: press down; "Depress the space key" [syn: press down, depress] 5: lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
• digress 0
  v 1: lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" [syn: digress, stray, divagate, wander] 2: wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle]
• distress 0
  n 1: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" [syn: distress, hurt, suffering] 2: a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress" 3: extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress" 4: the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien" [syn: distress, distraint] v 1: bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship [syn: straiten, distress] 2: cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
• duress 0
  n 1: compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"
• effloresce 0
  v 1: come into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past" [syn: effloresce, burst forth] 2: assume crystalline form; become crystallized [syn: crystallize, crystalize, crystalise, effloresce] 3: become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation
• egress 0
  n 1: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: egress, emersion] [ant: immersion, ingress] 2: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn: emergence, egress, issue] 3: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn: egress, egression, emergence] v 1: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress]
• express 0
  adv 1: by express; "please send the letter express" adj 1: not tacit or implied; "her express wish" 2: without unnecessary stops; "an express train"; "an express shipment" n 1: mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system [syn: express, express mail] 2: public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops; "he caught the express to New York" [syn: express, limited] [ant: local] 3: rapid transport of goods [syn: express, expressage] v 1: give expression to; "She showed her disappointment" [syn: express, show, evince] 2: articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" [syn: express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to] 3: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" [syn: carry, convey, express] 4: indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?" [syn: express, state] 5: manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait); "Many of the laboratory animals express the trait" 6: obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it" [syn: press out, express, extract] 7: send by rapid transport or special messenger service; "She expressed the letter to Florida"
• fluoresce 0
  v 1: exhibit or undergo fluorescence
• headdress 0
  n 1: clothing for the head [syn: headdress, headgear]
• heiress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• impress 0
  n 1: the act of coercing someone into government service [syn: impress, impressment] v 1: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [syn: affect, impress, move, strike] 2: impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience" 3: produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us" [syn: impress, ingrain, instill] 4: mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax" [syn: impress, imprint] 5: reproduce by printing [syn: print, impress] 6: take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged" [syn: shanghai, impress] 7: dye (fabric) before it is spun [syn: impress, yarn-dye]
• ingress 0
  n 1: (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: ingress, immersion] [ant: egress, emersion] 2: the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: entrance, entering, entry, ingress, incoming]
• laundress 0
  n 1: a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman, washerwoman, laundrywoman, laundress]
• letterpress 0
  n 1: printing from a plate with raised characters [syn: relief printing, letterpress]
• manageress 0
  n 1: a woman manager
• mayoress 0
  n 1: the wife of a mayor 2: a woman mayor
• misaddress 0
  v 1: put a wrong address on; "misdirect the letter" [syn: misdirect, misaddress]
• murderess 0
  n 1: a woman murderer
• nightdress 0
  n 1: lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women [syn: nightgown, gown, nightie, night- robe, nightdress]
• ogress 0
  n 1: (folklore) a female ogre
• oppress 0
  v 1: come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" [syn: oppress, suppress, crush] 2: cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union" [syn: persecute, oppress]
• overdress 0
  v 1: dress too warmly; "You should not overclothe the child--she will be too hot" [syn: overdress, overclothe] [ant: underdress] 2: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" [syn: overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out] [ant: dress down, underdress]
• peeress 0
  n 1: a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: Lady, noblewoman, peeress] [ant: Lord, noble, nobleman]
• phosphoresce 0
  v 1: to exhibit phosphorescence
• prioress 0
  n 1: the superior of a group of nuns [syn: abbess, mother superior, prioress]
• procuress 0
  n 1: a woman pimp
• progress 0
  n 1: gradual improvement or growth or development; "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts" [syn: advancement, progress] 2: the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) [syn: progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion] [ant: retreat] 3: a movement forward; "he listened for the progress of the troops" [syn: progress, progression, advance] v 1: develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up" [syn: progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up] [ant: regress, retrograde, retrogress] 2: move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on" [syn: advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on] [ant: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw] 3: form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border" [syn: build up, work up, build, progress]
• redress 0
  n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress] 2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: redress, remedy, remediation] v 1: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, redress, correct] [ant: wrong]
• regress 0
  n 1: the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence [syn: regress, reasoning backward] 2: returning to a former state [syn: regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion] v 1: go back to a statistical means 2: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" [syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back] 3: get worse or fall back to a previous condition [syn: regress, retrograde, retrogress] [ant: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up] 4: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" [syn: relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back]
• repress 0
  v 1: put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" [syn: repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce] 2: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" [syn: smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress] 3: put out of one's consciousness [syn: suppress, repress] 4: block the action of
• retrogress 0
  v 1: get worse or fall back to a previous condition [syn: regress, retrograde, retrogress] [ant: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up] 2: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" [syn: relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back]
• sorceress 0
  n 1: a woman sorcerer
• sundress 0
  n 1: a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and shoulders
• suppress 0
  v 1: to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" [syn: suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb] 2: come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" [syn: oppress, suppress, crush] 3: control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior [syn: inhibit, bottle up, suppress] 4: put out of one's consciousness [syn: suppress, repress] 5: reduce the incidence or severity of or stop; "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the hemorrhage"
• tigress 0
  n 1: a female tiger
• transgress 0
  v 1: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn: transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break] [ant: keep, observe] 2: spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island" 3: commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law [syn: sin, transgress, trespass] 4: pass beyond (limits or boundaries) [syn: transgress, trespass, overstep]
• undress 0
  n 1: partial or complete nakedness; "a state of undress" v 1: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment, tog] 2: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments" [syn: strip, undress, divest, disinvest]
• ungenerous 0
  adj 1: lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive" [syn: ungenerous, meanspirited] [ant: generous] 2: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [syn: stingy, ungenerous] [ant: generous]
• unglamorous 0
  adj 1: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]
• uterus 0
  n 1: a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus [syn: uterus, womb]
• valorous 0
  adj 1: having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier" [syn: valiant, valorous]
• vaporous 0
  adj 1: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby] 2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vaporous, vapourous] 3: filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" [syn: miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous]
• venturous 0
  adj 1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]
• vigorous 0
  adj 1: characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake"; "a vigorous campaign"; "a vigorous foreign policy"; "vigorous opposition to the war" 2: strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W.H.Hudson
• viviparous 0
  adj 1: producing living young (not eggs) [syn: viviparous, live-bearing] [ant: oviparous, ovoviviparous]
• vociferous 0
  adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]
• waitress 0
  n 1: a woman waiter v 1: serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant; "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's" [syn: wait, waitress]
• walrus 0
  n 1: either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber [syn: walrus, seahorse, sea horse]
• wardress 0
  n 1: a woman warder
• watercress 0
  adj 1: of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green [syn: cress green, cresson, watercress] n 1: any of several water-loving cresses 2: cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams
• winepress 0
  n 1: a press that is used to extract the juice from grapes
• wondrous 0
  adv 1: (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly" [syn: wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously] adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
• slumbrous 0
  adj 1: quiet and tranquil; "a slumberous June morning" [syn: slumberous, slumbrous] 2: inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect" [syn: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent]
• songstress 0
  n 1: a woman songster (especially of popular songs)
• taurus 0
  n 1: Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949) [syn: Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres Martinez, Taurus, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon, Michael Assat] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus [syn: Taurus, Bull] 3: a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion; between Aries and Gemini 4: the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20 [syn: Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull]
• tigris 0
  n 1: an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River [syn: Tigris, Tigris River]
• traitress 0
  n 1: female traitor
• tetramerous 0
  adj 1: having or consisting of four similar parts; tetramerous flowers
• shirtdress 0
  n 1: a dress that is tailored like a shirt and has buttons all the way down the front
• arcturus 0
  n 1: the 4th brightest star and the brightest star in the constellation Bootes; 36 light-years from Earth
• underdress 0
  v 1: dress without sufficient warmth; "She was underdressed for the hiking trip and suffered hypothermia" [ant: overclothe, overdress] 2: dress informally and casually; "On Fridays, employees can underdress" [syn: dress down, underdress] [ant: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up]
• beatrice 0
  n 1: the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy
• negress 0
  n 1: a Black woman or girl
• anchoress 0
• housedress 0
• minidress 0
• verdurous 0
• viperous 0
• scirrhus 0
• sclerous 0
• matrass 0
• battledress 0
• readdress 0

See also overstress definition and overstress synonyms