Ordeal and Stress

Ordeal

Ordeal noun - A test of faith, patience, or strength.

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

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

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

Nearby Words: stressed, stressful, stressing

emotional	emotional ordeal	emotional stress
initial	initial ordeal	initial stress
grinding	grinding ordeal	grinding stress
massive	massive ordeal	massive stress
Other adjectives: big, great, intense, serious, little, major, incredible, shared, significant, recent.

Fittingly, one of his last shorts, Shhhhhh, which deals with a man who suffers a nervous breakdown due to stress, seems to capture the ordeal he was going through.

Source: Creator Breakdown / Western Animation
She eventually had to call in backup from Luna and Cadance, and it's made clear that the whole ordeal caused a great amount of stress.

Source: Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S4 E23 "Inspiration Manifestation"
Some months after that fiasco, she broke out of Ravencroft Asylum and kidnapped Malcolm McBride (formerly Carrion, who was human at the moment, the virus inside him in remission) and stress caused by the ordeal caused him to become Carrion again.

Source: HeelFace Door-Slam

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