Thesaurus: distress

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1. n. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
2. n. That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
3. n. A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
4. n. The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
5. n. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
6. n. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
7. n. To compel by pain or suffering.
8. n. To seize for debt; to distrain.
9. n. psychological suffering
10. n. a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
11. n. extreme physical pain
12. n. the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim