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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.

📑 Synonyms: distrain

To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

📑 Synonyms: age antique patinate