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Distress   /dɪstrˈɛs/   Listen
Distress

noun
1.
Psychological suffering.  Synonyms: hurt, suffering.
2.
A state of adversity (danger or affliction or need).  "She was the classic maiden in distress"
3.
Extreme physical pain.
4.
The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim.  Synonym: distraint.
verb
(past & past part. distressed; pres. part. distressing)
1.
Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship.  Synonym: straiten.
2.
Cause mental pain to.



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"Distress" Quotes from Famous Books



... the entrance of the Curate. "As long as we could imagine that Frank was to succeed to the Rectory, the thing looked comparatively easy. I beg your pardon, Gerald. Of course, you know how grieved I am—in short, that we all feel the deepest distress and vexation; but, to be sure, since you have given it up, somebody must succeed you—there can be ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... the law?" the colored man demanded in distress. The clerk nodded, and the applicant thought hard for ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... marriage, there is a violence of distress surpassing all other sufferings in the world. A woman's whole soul depends upon the conjugal tie. To struggle against fate alone, to journey to the grave without a friend to support you or to regret you, is an isolation ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr
... protean nightmare which, in one form or another of bigotry and oppression, has ridden that unfortunate country up to a very recent time, when civil war has again interfered with apparently little prospect of any better result. My distress at receiving such unexpected news from my brother was aggravated by his forbidding me to write to him or speak of his plans and proceedings to any one. This concealment, which would have been both difficult and repugnant to me, was rendered impossible ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... noble efforts to keep alive God's words in the hearts of the people; but in the writings of the prophets themselves we may read the actual messages which God's messengers proclaimed in order to stir up their hearers in times of national distress or heart-backsliding. ...
— The Bible in its Making - The most Wonderful Book in the World • Mildred Duff


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