Yet many environmentalists worry that such stress on the river will reduce its flow and irreversibly damage the estuary.
If you don't believe that stress damages the organs then you are denying a mountain of significant medical research.
Physical stresses caused by expansion and contraction can damage components.
Significant bodily stress such as childbirth can also damage this part of the vaginal wall.
Even the stress of exercise, which they considered healthy, was damaging to some of them.
Their fitness might have protected them, but the stress of competitive sport could have been damaging.
She was wondering if the stress of the last few months had damaged her mind.
Mechanical and chemical stress can damage basement membranes or the cells they support.
The stress of the accident greatly damaged his health.
The stress and exhaustion of that experience damaged his health, and he died the next year in New York.