distress
Meaning of distress
noun
- (Cause of) discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
- To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
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Hyphenation of distress
dis-tress
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- distress is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
distress synonyms
Meaning hurt:
Meaning distraint:
Meaning :
anguish, harrow, martyr, tantalise, tantalize, torment, trouble, vex, distrain, age, antique, patinate
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Anagrams of distress
Words that rhyme with distress
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