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UK
/dɪstɹˈɛs/
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[ US /dɪˈstɹɛs/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɹɛs/ ]
VERB
- bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
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cause mental pain to
The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
NOUN
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the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
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 -
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
a ship in distress
she was the classic maiden in distress -
extreme physical pain
the patient appeared to be in distress -
psychological suffering
the death of his wife caused him great distress
How To Use distress In A Sentence
- The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
- And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
- Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
- An orbiting satellite picked up a distress signal from the ship's emergency beacon, standard equipment on all modern boats.
- When we arrived she was in such a distressed state that we had to treat it with the upmost seriousness.
- The poor little mite was obviously distressed and was hobbling around on its good leg, often resting on the ground.
- In doing so, you have helped a pilot in distress and are a credit to [Air Force] Air Traffic Control.
- It includes strategies for promoting high academic achievement as well as off-setting problems of alienation, disengagement, and emotional distress.
- Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray. THE MEDICAL NEWS
- Complication of mechanical ventilation in neonates with respiratory distress.