Headache and Stress

Headache

Headache noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.

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Stress and headache are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stress" instead a noun "Headache".

Nearby Word: headachy

Stress noun - The burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time.

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Headache and stress are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Headache" instead a noun "Stress".

Nearby Words: stressed, stressful, stressing

pure	pure headache	pure stress
sheer	sheer headache	sheer stress
constant	constant headache	constant stress
severe	severe headache	severe stress
Other adjectives: massive, big, great, intense, serious, enormous, psychic, daily, major, immense, tremendous, chronic, unprecedented, added, sudden.

For example, she suspects that a stress-induced stomach ache is an ulcer or botulism, a headache is a brain tumor, and a small blotch on her hand is a "contagious, fatal rash."

Source: Hypochondria
On Cheers, Frasier can't get Norm to understand what a stress headache is until he compares it to eating ice-cream too fast.

Source: Brain Freeze
Agent Scully: Dean initially thinks he had a stress headache and scoffs at the idea that he would have a vision.

Source: Recap / Supernatural S 02 E 21 All Hell Breaks Loose Part One

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