restress

restress
\\“+\ transitive verb
Etymology: re- + stress
: to subject to phonetic stress (as a form or vowel that originated by loss of stress) and in so doing produce a stressed form different from the original stressed form

\\|främ\\ from yielded \\<infhyph>frəm\\, which by restressing yields \\|frəm\

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v.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • restress — v. * * * …   Universalium

  • restress — re·stress …   English syllables

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