Cause of burnout

The answer

STRESS

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STRESS answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for STRESS

Every other clue in this collection answered by STRESS, most used first.

• Emphasize - used 128 times, most recently in 2026
• Accent - used 57 times, most recently in 2024
• Emphasis - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Pressure - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Tension - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Accentuate - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Underscore - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Importance. - used 15 times, most recently in 1969
• Burnout cause - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Underline - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Put emphasis on - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Urgency. - used 7 times, most recently in 1970
• Blood pressure raiser - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Play up - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Strain - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

Related clues

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• Cause to stumble - TRIPUP, used 11 times
• Cause harm to - DAMAGE, used 9 times
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