distress
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
A cause of such discomfort.
Serious danger.
(medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
(law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
(law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
(law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.