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Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: anguish, torment
Antonyms: none provided
A cause of such discomfort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hardship, sorrow, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grief, grievance, misery, ruth, sadness, undelight, vexation, woe, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
Serious danger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jeopardy, peril, adventure, danger, distress, harm's way, threat, menace, hazard
Antonyms: none provided
An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychology, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: eustress
A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: anguish, harrow, trouble, vex, torment, tantalize, tantalise, martyr, wring, gnaw, afflict, lacerate, aggrieve, plague, atray, cag, distress, engrieve, grame, harass, harry, rend
Antonyms: none provided
To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: distrain
Antonyms: none provided
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
a pair of distressed jeans She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: age, antique, patinate
Antonyms: none provided
the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: distraint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: seizure
psychological suffering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
the death of his wife caused him great distress
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hurt, suffering
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pain, painfulness
Narrower terms: anguish, torment, torture, self-torture, self-torment, tsoris, wound
extreme physical pain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
the patient appeared to be in distress
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pain, hurting
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
a ship in distress she was the classic maiden in distress
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: adversity, hardship, hard knocks
Narrower terms: anguish, pressure, throe
cause mental pain to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disturb, upset, trouble
Narrower terms: besiege
bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: straiten
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”). The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō.
Across languages
Translations 246 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Esperanto :
ĉagreno
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
German :
Bedrängnis
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
German :
Elend
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
German :
Not
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
German :
Unbehagen
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
German :
Kummer
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
German :
Verzweiflung
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Macedonian :
бо́лка
(bólka)
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Macedonian :
стра́дање
(strádanje)
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Māori :
hūhi
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Spanish :
distrés
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Turkish :
bun
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Turkish :
kaygı
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Turkish :
sıkıntı
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Ottoman Turkish :
اضطراب
(ıztırâb)
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Ottoman Turkish :
قلق
(kalak)
— Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Arabic :
مِحْنَة
(miḥna)
— (cause of) discomfort
Catalan :
aflicció
— (cause of) discomfort
Catalan :
angoixa
— (cause of) discomfort
Catalan :
angúnia
— (cause of) discomfort
Ngazidja Comorian :
mswiɓa
— (cause of) discomfort
Danish :
ubehag
— (cause of) discomfort
Dutch :
druk
— (cause of) discomfort
Dutch :
stress
— (cause of) discomfort
Esperanto :
angoro
— (cause of) discomfort
Finnish :
tuska
— (cause of) discomfort
Finnish :
ahdinko
— (cause of) discomfort
French :
détresse
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Kummer
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Bedrängnis
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Drangsal
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Bekümmerung
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Notlage
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Bekümmernis
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Unbehagen
— (cause of) discomfort
German :
Notfall
— (cause of) discomfort
Gothic :
𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌹𐌸𐌰
(aggwiþa)
— (cause of) discomfort
Gothic :
𐌸𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃𐌻
(þreihsl)
— (cause of) discomfort
Greek :
αγωνία
(agonía)
— (cause of) discomfort
Greek :
συντριβή
(syntriví)
— (cause of) discomfort
Greek :
συμφορά
(symforá)
— (cause of) discomfort
Greek :
απελπισία
(apelpisía)
— (cause of) discomfort
Ancient Greek :
στενοχωρία
(stenokhōría)
— (cause of) discomfort
Ancient Greek :
ἀνία
(anía)
— (cause of) discomfort
Ancient Greek :
ἄχος
(ákhos)
— (cause of) discomfort
Ancient Greek :
συνοχή
(sunokhḗ)
— (cause of) discomfort
Hebrew :
מוּעָקָה
(mu'aqá)
— (cause of) discomfort
Hindi :
तनाव
(tanāv)
— (cause of) discomfort
Hindi :
दुख
(dukh)
— (cause of) discomfort
Hungarian :
bánat
— (cause of) discomfort
Hungarian :
gyötrelem
— (cause of) discomfort
Hungarian :
bú
— (cause of) discomfort
Hungarian :
búbánat
— (cause of) discomfort
Icelandic :
óþægindi
— (cause of) discomfort
Ingrian :
vaiva
— (cause of) discomfort
Irish :
angar
— (cause of) discomfort
Irish :
crá
— (cause of) discomfort
Italian :
angoscia
— (cause of) discomfort
Italian :
pena
— (cause of) discomfort
Italian :
miseria
— (cause of) discomfort
Italian :
sconforto
— (cause of) discomfort
Central Kurdish :
بێچارەیی
(bêçareyî)
— (cause of) discomfort
Central Kurdish :
دڵ تەنگی
(dill tengî)
— (cause of) discomfort
Latin :
aerumna
— (cause of) discomfort
Macedonian :
ма́ка
(máka)
— (cause of) discomfort
Macedonian :
бе́да
(béda)
— (cause of) discomfort
Māori :
ahotea
— (cause of) discomfort
Māori :
uhitea
— (cause of) discomfort
Māori :
āwangawanga
— (cause of) discomfort
Māori :
māteatea
— (cause of) discomfort
Māori :
auhi
— (cause of) discomfort
Māori :
auhitanga
— (cause of) discomfort
Māori :
pāpōuri
— (cause of) discomfort
Norwegian :
ubehag
— (cause of) discomfort
Portuguese :
desconforto
— (cause of) discomfort
Romanian :
suferință
— (cause of) discomfort
Russian :
го́ре
(góre)
— (cause of) discomfort
Russian :
беда́
(bedá)
— (cause of) discomfort
Russian :
несча́стье
(nesčástʹje)
— (cause of) discomfort
Sanskrit :
दुःख
(duḥkha)
— (cause of) discomfort
Sanskrit :
शोक
(śoka)
— (cause of) discomfort
Sanskrit :
क्लेश
(kleśa)
— (cause of) discomfort
Sanskrit :
आपद्
(āpad)
— (cause of) discomfort
Scottish Gaelic :
airc
— (cause of) discomfort
Serbo-Croatian :
distres
— (cause of) discomfort
Serbo-Croatian :
muka
— (cause of) discomfort
Spanish :
aflicción
— (cause of) discomfort
Spanish :
angustia
— (cause of) discomfort
Spanish :
desasosiego
— (cause of) discomfort
Spanish :
ansiedad
— (cause of) discomfort
Spanish :
sinvivir
— (cause of) discomfort
Swahili :
dhiki
— (cause of) discomfort
Swedish :
obehag
— (cause of) discomfort
Swedish :
bekymmer
— (cause of) discomfort
Swedish :
ledsamhet
— (cause of) discomfort
Turkish :
sıkıntı
— (cause of) discomfort
Turkish :
mihnet
— (cause of) discomfort
Turkish :
cendere
— (cause of) discomfort
Turkish :
ızdırap
— (cause of) discomfort
Turkish :
bun
— (cause of) discomfort
Turkish :
kaygı
— (cause of) discomfort
Ottoman Turkish :
شدت
(şiddet)
— (cause of) discomfort
Ukrainian :
горе
(hore)
— (cause of) discomfort
Ukrainian :
лихо
(lyxo)
— (cause of) discomfort
Ukrainian :
страждання
(straždannja)
— (cause of) discomfort
Bulgarian :
беда
(beda)
— serious danger
Bulgarian :
бедствие
(bedstvie)
— serious danger
Danish :
nødsituation
— serious danger
Finnish :
hätä
— serious danger
Finnish :
merihätä
— serious danger
French :
détresse
— serious danger
German :
Not
— serious danger
German :
Notlage
— serious danger
German :
Seenot
— serious danger
German :
Notfall
— serious danger
German :
Bergnot
— serious danger
Greek :
κίνδυνος
(kíndynos)
— serious danger
Hindi :
संकट
(saṅkaṭ)
— serious danger
Hindi :
आपदा
(āpdā)
— serious danger
Hindi :
विपत्ति
(vipatti)
— serious danger
Hungarian :
baj
— serious danger
Hungarian :
szorultság
— serious danger
Hungarian :
szorult helyzet
— serious danger
Hungarian :
megszorultság
— serious danger
Hungarian :
szorongattatás
— serious danger
Hungarian :
vész
— serious danger
Hungarian :
ínség
— serious danger
Hungarian :
szükség
— serious danger
Icelandic :
vá
— serious danger
Icelandic :
stórhætta
— serious danger
Indonesian :
distres
— serious danger
Indonesian :
gawat
— serious danger
Ingrian :
hätä
— serious danger
Italian :
pericolo
— serious danger
Italian :
difficoltà
— serious danger
Central Kurdish :
شڕ
(şirr)
— serious danger
Macedonian :
о́пасност
(ópasnost)
— serious danger
Māori :
mōrearea
— serious danger
Norwegian :
nødsituasjon
— serious danger
Polish :
zagrożenie
— serious danger
Polish :
niebezpieczeństwo
— serious danger
Portuguese :
perigo
— serious danger
Romanian :
primejdie
— serious danger
Romanian :
pericol
— serious danger
Russian :
бе́дствие
(bédstvije)
— serious danger
Russian :
беда́
(bedá)
— serious danger
Spanish :
peligro
— serious danger
Spanish :
apuro
— serious danger
Spanish :
aprieto
— serious danger
Spanish :
angustia
— serious danger
Spanish :
amenaza
— serious danger
Swedish :
nödläge
— serious danger
Swedish :
nödsituation
— serious danger
Tocharian B :
ñyātse
— serious danger
Ukrainian :
небезпека
(nebezpeka)
— serious danger
Ukrainian :
загроза
(zahroza)
— serious danger
Chinese Mandarin :
惡性應激 /恶性应激
(èxìng yìngjī)
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Finnish :
distressi
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
French :
détresse
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
German :
maladaptive Coping
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Hindi :
तनाव
(tanāv)
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Hungarian :
distressz
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Indonesian :
distres
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Japanese :
不快ストレス
(fukai-sutoresu)
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Kazakh :
дистресс
(distress)
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Korean :
디스트레스
(diseuteureseu)
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Māori :
ngaukino
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Polish :
dystres
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Spanish :
estrés
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Spanish :
distrés
— medicine, psychology: state of maladaptive stress
Bulgarian :
запор
(zapor)
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Chinese Mandarin :
扣押
(kòuyā)
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Finnish :
ulosotto
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Hungarian :
lefoglalás
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Hungarian :
zálogolás
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Hungarian :
zár alá vétel
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Hungarian :
végrehajtás
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Malay :
distres
— law: a seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
Albanian :
shqetësoj
— to cause strain or anxiety
Bulgarian :
измъчвам
(izmǎčvam)
— to cause strain or anxiety
Bulgarian :
тревожа
(trevoža)
— to cause strain or anxiety
Dutch :
onder druk zetten
— to cause strain or anxiety
Dutch :
benauwen
— to cause strain or anxiety
Esperanto :
angorigi
— to cause strain or anxiety
Finnish :
ahdistaa
— to cause strain or anxiety
Finnish :
tehdä onnettomaksi
— to cause strain or anxiety
German :
bedrücken
— to cause strain or anxiety
German :
bekümmern
— to cause strain or anxiety
German :
heimsuchen
— to cause strain or anxiety
German :
peinigen
— to cause strain or anxiety
German :
quälen
— to cause strain or anxiety
Gothic :
𐌲𐌰𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽
(gaaggwjan)
— to cause strain or anxiety
Greek :
στενοχωρώ
(stenochoró)
— to cause strain or anxiety
Greek :
θλίβω
(thlívo)
— to cause strain or anxiety
Greek :
αναστατώνω
(anastatóno)
— to cause strain or anxiety
Hungarian :
elszomorít
— to cause strain or anxiety
Hungarian :
nyomaszt
— to cause strain or anxiety
Hungarian :
lesújt
— to cause strain or anxiety
Hungarian :
lehangol
— to cause strain or anxiety
Irish :
cráigh
— to cause strain or anxiety
Italian :
angustiare
— to cause strain or anxiety
Italian :
addolorare
— to cause strain or anxiety
Italian :
tormentare
— to cause strain or anxiety
Italian :
logorare
— to cause strain or anxiety
Latin :
dēgravō
— to cause strain or anxiety
Māori :
nonope
— to cause strain or anxiety
Māori :
whakaāwangawanga
— to cause strain or anxiety
Māori :
kaiawherangi
— to cause strain or anxiety
Māori :
whakangaukino
— to cause strain or anxiety
Old English :
ābelgan
— to cause strain or anxiety
Polish :
gnębić
— to cause strain or anxiety
Polish :
niepokoić
— to cause strain or anxiety
Polish :
martwić
— to cause strain or anxiety
Polish :
prześladować
— to cause strain or anxiety
Portuguese :
angustiar
— to cause strain or anxiety
Portuguese :
afobar
— to cause strain or anxiety
Romanian :
deranja
— to cause strain or anxiety
Russian :
тревожить
(trevožitʹ)
— to cause strain or anxiety
Spanish :
distresar
— to cause strain or anxiety
Spanish :
acorar
— to cause strain or anxiety
Bulgarian :
запорирам
(zaporiram)
— to retain someone’s property
Chinese Mandarin :
拖欠
(tuōqiàn)
— to retain someone’s property
Finnish :
ulosmitata
— to retain someone’s property
German :
zurückbehalten
— to retain someone’s property
German :
in Beschlag nehmen
— to retain someone’s property
Greek :
κατάσχω
(katáscho)
— to retain someone’s property
Hungarian :
lefoglal
— to retain someone’s property
Hungarian :
zálogol
— to retain someone’s property
Hungarian :
zár alá vesz
— to retain someone’s property
Hungarian :
végrehajt
— to retain someone’s property
Italian :
confiscare
— to retain someone’s property
Italian :
pignorare
— to retain someone’s property
Portuguese :
penhorar
— to retain someone’s property
Chinese Mandarin :
做旧
(zuòjiù)
— to treat to make look old
Finnish :
vanhentaa
— to treat to make look old
German :
patinieren
— to treat to make look old
German :
(künstlich) altern
— to treat to make look old
German :
auf alt trimmen (vt.)
(Möbel, Kleidung)
— to treat to make look old
Hungarian :
koptat
— to treat to make look old
Hungarian :
kikoptat
— to treat to make look old
Hungarian :
kikészít
— to treat to make look old
Italian :
antichizzare
— to treat to make look old
Polish :
starzeć
— to treat to make look old
Portuguese :
desgastar
— to treat to make look old
Russian :
старить
(staritʹ)
— to treat to make look old
Swedish :
patinera
— to treat to make look old
