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distress
 
Noun distress has 4 senses
  1. distress, hurt, suffering - psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
    --1 is a kind of pain, painfulness
    --1 has particulars:
     anguish, torment, torture; self-torture, self-torment; tsoris; wound
    Derived form: verb distress1
  2. distress - a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"
    --2 is a kind of     adversity, hardship, hard knocks
    --2 has particulars: anguish; pressure; throe
  3. distress - extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"
    --3 is a kind of     pain, hurting
  4. distress, distraint - the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landloard's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
    --4 is a kind of seizure
Verb distress has 1 sense
  1. distress - cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
    --1 is one way to     disturb, upset, trouble
    Derived form: noun distress1
    Sample sentence:
    The bad news will distress him
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