How to pronounce“distress”in English
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Definitions of “distress”
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
“To heighten his distress, he is approached by his wife, and bitterly upbraided for his perfidy in concealing from her his former connexions (with that unhappy girl who is here present with her child, the innocent offspring of her amours, fainting at the sight of his misfortunes, being unable to relieve him farther), and plunging her into those difficulties she never shall be able to surmount.”
A cause of such discomfort.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
“She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair.”
To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
“This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm.”
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