Definition of distress in English:

distress

noun dɪˈstrɛsdəˈstrɛs

mass noun

1Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
to his distress he saw that she was trembling
her fingers flew to her throat in distress
Example sentencesExamples
- Many may have developed explicit systems which seek to alleviate human distress by eliminative procedures.
- She was experiencing significant distress due to hot flashes and was referred by her oncologist for hypnotherapy.
- They say that the school didn't protect her and that she's suffering emotional distress.
- Benzodiazepines can relieve the distress associated with agoraphobia but have only a temporary effect.
- People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem.
- Mediated pathways were especially salient for understanding variation in adolescents' self-reported distress.
- Only then will we avoid causing distress to our elderly by nursing home closures.
- Complex social institutions have developed in response to pressures to alleviate the distress which behavior patterns can produce.
- Considerable social stigma is associated with infection, which may cause psychological distress in the sufferer.
- The causative role of that trauma in patients' subsequent distress becomes clear.
- Analgesics for chronic pain should be administered at whatever dose is required to relieve distress.
- Fourthly, patients' distress and their vulnerability to anxiety and depression are lessened.
- The treatment of choice for co-occurring marital distress and depression appears to be behavioral marital therapy.
- Caring for people experiencing mental distress is often complex and challenging.
- They can be enforced whenever youths are harassing or causing distress to residents or businesses.
- Several qualified female staff expressed intense feelings of distress associated with restraining patients.
- Family members and friends can lessen the patient's distress by avoiding disagreements in front of the patient.
- They began and ended therapy with profiles that represented a couple in serious relationship distress.
- Next, subjects were classified according to relationship distress as measured by the RAT.
- Others, however, suffer great emotional distress associated with a lack of self-confidence and sometimes depression.
Synonyms
anguish, suffering, pain, agony, ache, affliction, torment, torture, discomfort, heartache, heartbreak
misery, wretchedness, sorrow, grief, woe, sadness, unhappiness, desolation, despair
trouble, worry, anxiety, perturbation, uneasiness, disquiet, angst
1. 1.1 The state of a ship or aircraft when in danger or difficulty and needing help.
  vessels in distress on or near the coast
  as modifier a distress call
  Example sentencesExamples
  And next time there is a ship in distress in Norwegian waters, let's hope there is an Australian vessel nearby.
  With trousers flapping vigorously on the coastline Maritime rescuers might have taken him for a small sailing vessel in distress.
  Aaron continued telling anyone who was listening how the freighter ship Charybdis was in distress.
  Just as the Missouri left Earth orbit a top order distress signal came through.
  The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
  The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am.
  Unwaveringly these incredibly brave volunteers get in the chopper and answer the distress call.
  Our ships and aircraft received no distress calls.
  Wasn't the closest port in Indonesia when the ship received a distress call?
  The played disk quickly created an ambient background sound of a ship in distress.
  Three Kingfisher pilots searching for ships in distress radioed they had spotted life rafts in the stormy Atlantic.
  At the seaside, the coastguard reported a number of false alarms when ships mistook fireworks for distress flares.
  USS Gettysburg recently rescued four civilian mariners in distress at sea.
  Tasks undertaken have included searches, medical evacuations, and providing aid to ships and boats in distress.
  The Navy has made a valiant, but ultimately doomed, attempt to rescue a fellow seafarer in distress at Fleet Base West.
  The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress.
  It would continue to befriend foreign sailors in distress but would destroy any foreign ships that threatened its rulers or were violent.
  Spanish ships in distress were to be permitted to seek refuge in English ports.
  In doing so, you have helped a pilot in distress and are a credit to [Air Force] Air Traffic Control.
  "We're picking up a distress beacon, " he explained.
  Synonyms
  danger, peril, difficulty, trouble, jeopardy, risk, hazard, endangerment, imperilment
  insecurity, instability, precariousness
2. 1.2 Difficulty caused by lack of money.
  a company in financial distress
  Example sentencesExamples
  This financial distress is creating serious health problems too.
  Farmers are subject to major disruption and families can suffer serious distress and financial loss.
  Many have been separated from their families and loved ones for months on end, enduring great personal distress and financial loss.
  Boston's Dance Umbrella, New England's major modern dance presenter, closed at the end of April, citing severe financial distress.
  As a councillor, I witness at first hand the needless hardship and distress caused to, mainly young, families waiting years to be housed.
  The firm I worked for went through financial distress before lay-offs.
  Meanwhile, the money is rolling in for the relief of distress among the victims of this appalling apocalyptic tragedy.
  On that bus, dignity masks the distress of financial hardship and failing hope.
  A National Grid spokesman said today that the company did not wish to cause any distress or financial hardship to Mrs Craven.
  Some look embarrassed; their presence here all but announces financial distress at home.
  Both these parasitical forms of life are causing distress and hardship to average, hard-working Bermudians.
  The framers of the New Deal never considered day care as a strategy for alleviating economic distress, however.
  By one estimate, medical expenses are the primary cause of financial distress for 40 percent of those struggling to hold on to their homes.
  A charity for the homeless is marking ten years of relieving poverty and distress in the Chorley area.
  We collected some money so that when we found instances of real distress over matters other than food we had a fund that we were able to divide up.
  So, in advance of the Budget, the RAC Foundation called on the Chancellor to freeze fuel tax to avoid further financial distress.
  He told planners he could get into financial distress if expansion proposals for the business weren't agreed soon.
  Many of the suicides in the countryside were triggered by the financial distress caused by the low rubber prices.
  It also noted that another operational consequence of BWIA's financial distress was the long delay in regaining Category 1 status.
  But it is also required that the shopping be at a level where it impairs your job, or creates serious family problems, or leads to financial distress.
  Synonyms
  hardship, adversity, tribulation, misfortune, ill/bad luck, trouble, calamity
  poverty, deprivation, privation, destitution, indigence, impoverishment, penury, need, want, lack, beggary, dire straits
3. 1.3Medicine A state of physical strain, especially difficulty in breathing.
  they said the baby was in distress
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was hospitalized with respiratory distress due to mediastinal masses compressing the airway.
  Researchers first assumed startles were needed to arouse an infant beginning to experience respiratory distress.
  Additional and more serious symptoms include eye infections, acute respiratory distress, and pneumonia.
  No significant differences between the various groups were found when the incidence of acute fetal distress was analyzed.
  As in other causes of acute respiratory distress syndrome, the mortality is high.
2Law
another term for distraint
Example sentencesExamples
- Payments were not made under the LO and bailiffs were instructed to levy distress but were unsuccessful.
- W. Toronto changed locks and posted bailiff notice of distress.
- Nothing the bailiff did, in attempting lawfully to levy distress, could have begun to justify a resort to violence by another person present.
- On 22nd July 2003 the father employed bailiffs to levy distress on Ash Waste in respect of £2,857 allegedly owed as rent.
- Speed had said that ‘when a statute says money ‘shall be levied by distress,’ that is an execution.’

verb dɪˈstrɛsdəˈstrɛs

[with object]

1Cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
I didn't mean to distress you
please don't distress yourself
Example sentencesExamples
- I was distressed by this news; if not at Yale, then where?
- That is not why the story of SIEV-X distresses me.
- It might distress people considerably, but no moral judgment can be applied because you have a totally wild encounter.
- But if it distresses you, I'll have Sean reconfigure the link.
- As a resident of Alastrean House in Aberdeenshire, I am distressed by the recent news that the house is threatened with closure.
- Elizabeth felt that he was distressed because she was right and he had upset her.
- In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country.
- Mental health counsellors have set up crisis phone lines for people distressed by the shootings.
- The entire situation distresses the people profoundly these days.
- He had done every possible act to bother and distress her, including his attempt of a confession of love to her.
- On Saturday, Hat Hair and I sit in the park and drink beer until his quiet introspection distresses me and I leave.
- Lt. Col. Patterson said he was distressed at the news.
- He was very distressed and upset when he got home.
- Michelle was deeply distressed by Adam's news and she felt tears forming quickly in her eyes.
- Only two weeks after writing this post, I am still distressed by the news from London.
- He reported that he was distressed by the news that one of his friends had relayed today.
- Yeah, it distresses me how easy it is to fail the people who need us.
- Many people are distressed at what has happened.
- To merely contemplate moving human remains will distress some people.
- Though these behaviors might distress people, they serve turkey vultures well.
Synonyms
cause anguish to, cause suffering to, pain, upset, make miserable, make wretched
grieve, sadden
trouble, worry, bother, arouse anxiety in, perturb, disturb, disquiet, agitate, vex, harrow, torment, torture, afflict, rack, curse, oppress, plague, dog
informal cut up
upsetting, worrying, affecting, painful, traumatic, agonizing, harrowing, tormenting
sad, saddening, pitiful, heartbreaking, heart-rending, tragic, haunting
disturbing, concerning, unsettling, disquieting
shocking, alarming
informal gut-wrenching
rare distressful
2Give (furniture or clothing) simulated marks of age and wear.
the manner in which leather jackets are industrially distressed
Example sentencesExamples
- I use anything that is available to create a texture, make a mark, reflect light, distress the surface, etc.
- The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish.
- So, I hereby grant you permission to paint that table, to distress it, to weather it, to paint it pink and stencil flowers around the edge if that pleases you.
Synonyms
age, season, condition, mellow, weather, simulate age in
damage, spoil, dent, scratch, chip, batter

Derivatives

distressful

adjectivedɪˈstrɛsfʊldɪˈstrɛsf(ə)ldəˈstrɛsf(ə)l

No one's life is free of distressful experiences and trauma.
Example sentencesExamples
- So there I was at The Commercial, the venerable Blues on Whyte, drinking a rum and coke and contemplating a distressful situation.
- In this stage, the patient uses the distressful affect to change the relevant contingencies.
- It features some heart-warming stories and photographs of animals rescued from distressful conditions and given a new lease of life.
- Why should we make someone lead a painful and distressful life?

Origin

Middle English: from Old French destresce (noun), destrecier (verb), based on Latin distringere 'stretch apart'.

district from early 17th century:
A district was originally the territory under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord. The word is from French, from medieval Latin districtus which meant ‘the constraining and restraining of offenders’ indicating the right to administer justice in a given area. It goes back to Latin distringere ‘hinder, detain’, found also in distress (Middle English), and its shortened form stress (Middle English).

Definition of distress in US English:

distress

noundəˈstresdəˈstrɛs

1Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
to his distress he saw that she was trembling
Example sentencesExamples
- They began and ended therapy with profiles that represented a couple in serious relationship distress.
- Benzodiazepines can relieve the distress associated with agoraphobia but have only a temporary effect.
- Analgesics for chronic pain should be administered at whatever dose is required to relieve distress.
- Next, subjects were classified according to relationship distress as measured by the RAT.
- Considerable social stigma is associated with infection, which may cause psychological distress in the sufferer.
- Many may have developed explicit systems which seek to alleviate human distress by eliminative procedures.
- Family members and friends can lessen the patient's distress by avoiding disagreements in front of the patient.
- The treatment of choice for co-occurring marital distress and depression appears to be behavioral marital therapy.
- She was experiencing significant distress due to hot flashes and was referred by her oncologist for hypnotherapy.
- They say that the school didn't protect her and that she's suffering emotional distress.
- Several qualified female staff expressed intense feelings of distress associated with restraining patients.
- Caring for people experiencing mental distress is often complex and challenging.
- They can be enforced whenever youths are harassing or causing distress to residents or businesses.
- Fourthly, patients' distress and their vulnerability to anxiety and depression are lessened.
- Complex social institutions have developed in response to pressures to alleviate the distress which behavior patterns can produce.
- Only then will we avoid causing distress to our elderly by nursing home closures.
- Mediated pathways were especially salient for understanding variation in adolescents' self-reported distress.
- The causative role of that trauma in patients' subsequent distress becomes clear.
- People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem.
- Others, however, suffer great emotional distress associated with a lack of self-confidence and sometimes depression.
Synonyms
anguish, suffering, pain, agony, ache, affliction, torment, torture, discomfort, heartache, heartbreak
1. 1.1 The state of a ship or aircraft when in danger or difficulty and needing help.
  vessels in distress on or near the coast
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Navy has made a valiant, but ultimately doomed, attempt to rescue a fellow seafarer in distress at Fleet Base West.
  Spanish ships in distress were to be permitted to seek refuge in English ports.
  Wasn't the closest port in Indonesia when the ship received a distress call?
  The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am.
  The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress.
  Tasks undertaken have included searches, medical evacuations, and providing aid to ships and boats in distress.
  Three Kingfisher pilots searching for ships in distress radioed they had spotted life rafts in the stormy Atlantic.
  Our ships and aircraft received no distress calls.
  It would continue to befriend foreign sailors in distress but would destroy any foreign ships that threatened its rulers or were violent.
  USS Gettysburg recently rescued four civilian mariners in distress at sea.
  With trousers flapping vigorously on the coastline Maritime rescuers might have taken him for a small sailing vessel in distress.
  Just as the Missouri left Earth orbit a top order distress signal came through.
  "We're picking up a distress beacon, " he explained.
  The played disk quickly created an ambient background sound of a ship in distress.
  Aaron continued telling anyone who was listening how the freighter ship Charybdis was in distress.
  At the seaside, the coastguard reported a number of false alarms when ships mistook fireworks for distress flares.
  And next time there is a ship in distress in Norwegian waters, let's hope there is an Australian vessel nearby.
  In doing so, you have helped a pilot in distress and are a credit to [Air Force] Air Traffic Control.
  Unwaveringly these incredibly brave volunteers get in the chopper and answer the distress call.
  The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
  Synonyms
  danger, peril, difficulty, trouble, jeopardy, risk, hazard, endangerment, imperilment
2. 1.2 Suffering caused by lack of money or the basic necessities of life.
  the poor were helped in their distress
  Example sentencesExamples
  A charity for the homeless is marking ten years of relieving poverty and distress in the Chorley area.
  It also noted that another operational consequence of BWIA's financial distress was the long delay in regaining Category 1 status.
  By one estimate, medical expenses are the primary cause of financial distress for 40 percent of those struggling to hold on to their homes.
  Boston's Dance Umbrella, New England's major modern dance presenter, closed at the end of April, citing severe financial distress.
  Farmers are subject to major disruption and families can suffer serious distress and financial loss.
  This financial distress is creating serious health problems too.
  He told planners he could get into financial distress if expansion proposals for the business weren't agreed soon.
  So, in advance of the Budget, the RAC Foundation called on the Chancellor to freeze fuel tax to avoid further financial distress.
  We collected some money so that when we found instances of real distress over matters other than food we had a fund that we were able to divide up.
  But it is also required that the shopping be at a level where it impairs your job, or creates serious family problems, or leads to financial distress.
  Some look embarrassed; their presence here all but announces financial distress at home.
  As a councillor, I witness at first hand the needless hardship and distress caused to, mainly young, families waiting years to be housed.
  Both these parasitical forms of life are causing distress and hardship to average, hard-working Bermudians.
  Meanwhile, the money is rolling in for the relief of distress among the victims of this appalling apocalyptic tragedy.
  The firm I worked for went through financial distress before lay-offs.
  On that bus, dignity masks the distress of financial hardship and failing hope.
  Many of the suicides in the countryside were triggered by the financial distress caused by the low rubber prices.
  Many have been separated from their families and loved ones for months on end, enduring great personal distress and financial loss.
  A National Grid spokesman said today that the company did not wish to cause any distress or financial hardship to Mrs Craven.
  The framers of the New Deal never considered day care as a strategy for alleviating economic distress, however.
  Synonyms
  hardship, adversity, tribulation, misfortune, bad luck, ill luck, trouble, calamity
3. 1.3Medicine A state of physical strain, exhaustion, or, in particular, breathing difficulty.
  they said the baby was in distress
  Example sentencesExamples
  Additional and more serious symptoms include eye infections, acute respiratory distress, and pneumonia.
  Researchers first assumed startles were needed to arouse an infant beginning to experience respiratory distress.
  As in other causes of acute respiratory distress syndrome, the mortality is high.
  She was hospitalized with respiratory distress due to mediastinal masses compressing the airway.
  No significant differences between the various groups were found when the incidence of acute fetal distress was analyzed.
2Law
another term for distraint
Example sentencesExamples
- On 22nd July 2003 the father employed bailiffs to levy distress on Ash Waste in respect of £2,857 allegedly owed as rent.
- W. Toronto changed locks and posted bailiff notice of distress.
- Payments were not made under the LO and bailiffs were instructed to levy distress but were unsuccessful.
- Speed had said that ‘when a statute says money ‘shall be levied by distress,’ that is an execution.’
- Nothing the bailiff did, in attempting lawfully to levy distress, could have begun to justify a resort to violence by another person present.

verbdəˈstresdəˈstrɛs

[with object]

1Cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
I didn't mean to distress you
with object and infinitive he was distressed to find that Anna would not talk to him
Example sentencesExamples
- Only two weeks after writing this post, I am still distressed by the news from London.
- To merely contemplate moving human remains will distress some people.
- Lt. Col. Patterson said he was distressed at the news.
- I was distressed by this news; if not at Yale, then where?
- Mental health counsellors have set up crisis phone lines for people distressed by the shootings.
- He reported that he was distressed by the news that one of his friends had relayed today.
- In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country.
- On Saturday, Hat Hair and I sit in the park and drink beer until his quiet introspection distresses me and I leave.
- Yeah, it distresses me how easy it is to fail the people who need us.
- Elizabeth felt that he was distressed because she was right and he had upset her.
- As a resident of Alastrean House in Aberdeenshire, I am distressed by the recent news that the house is threatened with closure.
- Michelle was deeply distressed by Adam's news and she felt tears forming quickly in her eyes.
- But if it distresses you, I'll have Sean reconfigure the link.
- He had done every possible act to bother and distress her, including his attempt of a confession of love to her.
- That is not why the story of SIEV-X distresses me.
- Though these behaviors might distress people, they serve turkey vultures well.
- He was very distressed and upset when he got home.
- Many people are distressed at what has happened.
- The entire situation distresses the people profoundly these days.
- It might distress people considerably, but no moral judgment can be applied because you have a totally wild encounter.
Synonyms
cause anguish to, cause suffering to, pain, upset, make miserable, make wretched
upsetting, worrying, affecting, painful, traumatic, agonizing, harrowing, tormenting
2Give (furniture, leather, or clothing) simulated marks of age and wear.
the manner in which leather jackets are industrially distressed
Example sentencesExamples
- I use anything that is available to create a texture, make a mark, reflect light, distress the surface, etc.
- The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish.
- So, I hereby grant you permission to paint that table, to distress it, to weather it, to paint it pink and stencil flowers around the edge if that pleases you.
Synonyms
age, season, condition, mellow, weather, simulate age in

Origin

Middle English: from Old French destresce (noun), destrecier (verb), based on Latin distringere ‘stretch apart’.

单词	distress
释义	Definition of distress in English: distress noun dɪˈstrɛsdəˈstrɛs mass noun 1Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain. to his distress he saw that she was trembling her fingers flew to her throat in distress Example sentencesExamples Many may have developed explicit systems which seek to alleviate human distress by eliminative procedures. She was experiencing significant distress due to hot flashes and was referred by her oncologist for hypnotherapy. They say that the school didn't protect her and that she's suffering emotional distress. Benzodiazepines can relieve the distress associated with agoraphobia but have only a temporary effect. People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem. Mediated pathways were especially salient for understanding variation in adolescents' self-reported distress. Only then will we avoid causing distress to our elderly by nursing home closures. Complex social institutions have developed in response to pressures to alleviate the distress which behavior patterns can produce. Considerable social stigma is associated with infection, which may cause psychological distress in the sufferer. The causative role of that trauma in patients' subsequent distress becomes clear. Analgesics for chronic pain should be administered at whatever dose is required to relieve distress. Fourthly, patients' distress and their vulnerability to anxiety and depression are lessened. The treatment of choice for co-occurring marital distress and depression appears to be behavioral marital therapy. Caring for people experiencing mental distress is often complex and challenging. They can be enforced whenever youths are harassing or causing distress to residents or businesses. Several qualified female staff expressed intense feelings of distress associated with restraining patients. Family members and friends can lessen the patient's distress by avoiding disagreements in front of the patient. They began and ended therapy with profiles that represented a couple in serious relationship distress. Next, subjects were classified according to relationship distress as measured by the RAT. Others, however, suffer great emotional distress associated with a lack of self-confidence and sometimes depression. Synonyms anguish, suffering, pain, agony, ache, affliction, torment, torture, discomfort, heartache, heartbreak misery, wretchedness, sorrow, grief, woe, sadness, unhappiness, desolation, despair trouble, worry, anxiety, perturbation, uneasiness, disquiet, angst 1.1 The state of a ship or aircraft when in danger or difficulty and needing help. vessels in distress on or near the coast as modifier a distress call Example sentencesExamples And next time there is a ship in distress in Norwegian waters, let's hope there is an Australian vessel nearby. With trousers flapping vigorously on the coastline Maritime rescuers might have taken him for a small sailing vessel in distress. Aaron continued telling anyone who was listening how the freighter ship Charybdis was in distress. Just as the Missouri left Earth orbit a top order distress signal came through. The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off. The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am. Unwaveringly these incredibly brave volunteers get in the chopper and answer the distress call. Our ships and aircraft received no distress calls. Wasn't the closest port in Indonesia when the ship received a distress call? The played disk quickly created an ambient background sound of a ship in distress. Three Kingfisher pilots searching for ships in distress radioed they had spotted life rafts in the stormy Atlantic. At the seaside, the coastguard reported a number of false alarms when ships mistook fireworks for distress flares. USS Gettysburg recently rescued four civilian mariners in distress at sea. Tasks undertaken have included searches, medical evacuations, and providing aid to ships and boats in distress. The Navy has made a valiant, but ultimately doomed, attempt to rescue a fellow seafarer in distress at Fleet Base West. The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress. It would continue to befriend foreign sailors in distress but would destroy any foreign ships that threatened its rulers or were violent. Spanish ships in distress were to be permitted to seek refuge in English ports. In doing so, you have helped a pilot in distress and are a credit to [Air Force] Air Traffic Control. "We're picking up a distress beacon, " he explained. Synonyms danger, peril, difficulty, trouble, jeopardy, risk, hazard, endangerment, imperilment insecurity, instability, precariousness 1.2 Difficulty caused by lack of money. a company in financial distress Example sentencesExamples This financial distress is creating serious health problems too. Farmers are subject to major disruption and families can suffer serious distress and financial loss. Many have been separated from their families and loved ones for months on end, enduring great personal distress and financial loss. Boston's Dance Umbrella, New England's major modern dance presenter, closed at the end of April, citing severe financial distress. As a councillor, I witness at first hand the needless hardship and distress caused to, mainly young, families waiting years to be housed. The firm I worked for went through financial distress before lay-offs. Meanwhile, the money is rolling in for the relief of distress among the victims of this appalling apocalyptic tragedy. On that bus, dignity masks the distress of financial hardship and failing hope. A National Grid spokesman said today that the company did not wish to cause any distress or financial hardship to Mrs Craven. Some look embarrassed; their presence here all but announces financial distress at home. Both these parasitical forms of life are causing distress and hardship to average, hard-working Bermudians. The framers of the New Deal never considered day care as a strategy for alleviating economic distress, however. By one estimate, medical expenses are the primary cause of financial distress for 40 percent of those struggling to hold on to their homes. A charity for the homeless is marking ten years of relieving poverty and distress in the Chorley area. We collected some money so that when we found instances of real distress over matters other than food we had a fund that we were able to divide up. So, in advance of the Budget, the RAC Foundation called on the Chancellor to freeze fuel tax to avoid further financial distress. He told planners he could get into financial distress if expansion proposals for the business weren't agreed soon. Many of the suicides in the countryside were triggered by the financial distress caused by the low rubber prices. It also noted that another operational consequence of BWIA's financial distress was the long delay in regaining Category 1 status. But it is also required that the shopping be at a level where it impairs your job, or creates serious family problems, or leads to financial distress. Synonyms hardship, adversity, tribulation, misfortune, ill/bad luck, trouble, calamity poverty, deprivation, privation, destitution, indigence, impoverishment, penury, need, want, lack, beggary, dire straits 1.3Medicine A state of physical strain, especially difficulty in breathing. they said the baby was in distress Example sentencesExamples She was hospitalized with respiratory distress due to mediastinal masses compressing the airway. Researchers first assumed startles were needed to arouse an infant beginning to experience respiratory distress. Additional and more serious symptoms include eye infections, acute respiratory distress, and pneumonia. No significant differences between the various groups were found when the incidence of acute fetal distress was analyzed. As in other causes of acute respiratory distress syndrome, the mortality is high. 2Law another term for distraint Example sentencesExamples Payments were not made under the LO and bailiffs were instructed to levy distress but were unsuccessful. W. Toronto changed locks and posted bailiff notice of distress. Nothing the bailiff did, in attempting lawfully to levy distress, could have begun to justify a resort to violence by another person present. On 22nd July 2003 the father employed bailiffs to levy distress on Ash Waste in respect of £2,857 allegedly owed as rent. Speed had said that ‘when a statute says money ‘shall be levied by distress,’ that is an execution.’ verb dɪˈstrɛsdəˈstrɛs [with object] 1Cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain. I didn't mean to distress you please don't distress yourself Example sentencesExamples I was distressed by this news; if not at Yale, then where? That is not why the story of SIEV-X distresses me. It might distress people considerably, but no moral judgment can be applied because you have a totally wild encounter. But if it distresses you, I'll have Sean reconfigure the link. As a resident of Alastrean House in Aberdeenshire, I am distressed by the recent news that the house is threatened with closure. Elizabeth felt that he was distressed because she was right and he had upset her. In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country. Mental health counsellors have set up crisis phone lines for people distressed by the shootings. The entire situation distresses the people profoundly these days. He had done every possible act to bother and distress her, including his attempt of a confession of love to her. On Saturday, Hat Hair and I sit in the park and drink beer until his quiet introspection distresses me and I leave. Lt. Col. Patterson said he was distressed at the news. He was very distressed and upset when he got home. Michelle was deeply distressed by Adam's news and she felt tears forming quickly in her eyes. Only two weeks after writing this post, I am still distressed by the news from London. He reported that he was distressed by the news that one of his friends had relayed today. Yeah, it distresses me how easy it is to fail the people who need us. Many people are distressed at what has happened. To merely contemplate moving human remains will distress some people. Though these behaviors might distress people, they serve turkey vultures well. Synonyms cause anguish to, cause suffering to, pain, upset, make miserable, make wretched grieve, sadden trouble, worry, bother, arouse anxiety in, perturb, disturb, disquiet, agitate, vex, harrow, torment, torture, afflict, rack, curse, oppress, plague, dog informal cut up upsetting, worrying, affecting, painful, traumatic, agonizing, harrowing, tormenting sad, saddening, pitiful, heartbreaking, heart-rending, tragic, haunting disturbing, concerning, unsettling, disquieting shocking, alarming informal gut-wrenching rare distressful 2Give (furniture or clothing) simulated marks of age and wear. the manner in which leather jackets are industrially distressed Example sentencesExamples I use anything that is available to create a texture, make a mark, reflect light, distress the surface, etc. The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish. So, I hereby grant you permission to paint that table, to distress it, to weather it, to paint it pink and stencil flowers around the edge if that pleases you. Synonyms age, season, condition, mellow, weather, simulate age in damage, spoil, dent, scratch, chip, batter Derivatives distressful adjectivedɪˈstrɛsfʊldɪˈstrɛsf(ə)ldəˈstrɛsf(ə)l No one's life is free of distressful experiences and trauma. Example sentencesExamples So there I was at The Commercial, the venerable Blues on Whyte, drinking a rum and coke and contemplating a distressful situation. In this stage, the patient uses the distressful affect to change the relevant contingencies. It features some heart-warming stories and photographs of animals rescued from distressful conditions and given a new lease of life. Why should we make someone lead a painful and distressful life? Origin Middle English: from Old French destresce (noun), destrecier (verb), based on Latin distringere 'stretch apart'. district from early 17th century: A district was originally the territory under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord. The word is from French, from medieval Latin districtus which meant ‘the constraining and restraining of offenders’ indicating the right to administer justice in a given area. It goes back to Latin distringere ‘hinder, detain’, found also in distress (Middle English), and its shortened form stress (Middle English). Definition of distress in US English: distress noundəˈstresdəˈstrɛs 1Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain. to his distress he saw that she was trembling Example sentencesExamples They began and ended therapy with profiles that represented a couple in serious relationship distress. Benzodiazepines can relieve the distress associated with agoraphobia but have only a temporary effect. Analgesics for chronic pain should be administered at whatever dose is required to relieve distress. Next, subjects were classified according to relationship distress as measured by the RAT. Considerable social stigma is associated with infection, which may cause psychological distress in the sufferer. Many may have developed explicit systems which seek to alleviate human distress by eliminative procedures. Family members and friends can lessen the patient's distress by avoiding disagreements in front of the patient. The treatment of choice for co-occurring marital distress and depression appears to be behavioral marital therapy. She was experiencing significant distress due to hot flashes and was referred by her oncologist for hypnotherapy. They say that the school didn't protect her and that she's suffering emotional distress. Several qualified female staff expressed intense feelings of distress associated with restraining patients. Caring for people experiencing mental distress is often complex and challenging. They can be enforced whenever youths are harassing or causing distress to residents or businesses. Fourthly, patients' distress and their vulnerability to anxiety and depression are lessened. Complex social institutions have developed in response to pressures to alleviate the distress which behavior patterns can produce. Only then will we avoid causing distress to our elderly by nursing home closures. Mediated pathways were especially salient for understanding variation in adolescents' self-reported distress. The causative role of that trauma in patients' subsequent distress becomes clear. People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem. Others, however, suffer great emotional distress associated with a lack of self-confidence and sometimes depression. Synonyms anguish, suffering, pain, agony, ache, affliction, torment, torture, discomfort, heartache, heartbreak 1.1 The state of a ship or aircraft when in danger or difficulty and needing help. vessels in distress on or near the coast Example sentencesExamples The Navy has made a valiant, but ultimately doomed, attempt to rescue a fellow seafarer in distress at Fleet Base West. Spanish ships in distress were to be permitted to seek refuge in English ports. Wasn't the closest port in Indonesia when the ship received a distress call? The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am. The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress. Tasks undertaken have included searches, medical evacuations, and providing aid to ships and boats in distress. Three Kingfisher pilots searching for ships in distress radioed they had spotted life rafts in the stormy Atlantic. Our ships and aircraft received no distress calls. It would continue to befriend foreign sailors in distress but would destroy any foreign ships that threatened its rulers or were violent. USS Gettysburg recently rescued four civilian mariners in distress at sea. With trousers flapping vigorously on the coastline Maritime rescuers might have taken him for a small sailing vessel in distress. Just as the Missouri left Earth orbit a top order distress signal came through. "We're picking up a distress beacon, " he explained. The played disk quickly created an ambient background sound of a ship in distress. Aaron continued telling anyone who was listening how the freighter ship Charybdis was in distress. At the seaside, the coastguard reported a number of false alarms when ships mistook fireworks for distress flares. And next time there is a ship in distress in Norwegian waters, let's hope there is an Australian vessel nearby. In doing so, you have helped a pilot in distress and are a credit to [Air Force] Air Traffic Control. Unwaveringly these incredibly brave volunteers get in the chopper and answer the distress call. The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off. Synonyms danger, peril, difficulty, trouble, jeopardy, risk, hazard, endangerment, imperilment 1.2 Suffering caused by lack of money or the basic necessities of life. the poor were helped in their distress Example sentencesExamples A charity for the homeless is marking ten years of relieving poverty and distress in the Chorley area. It also noted that another operational consequence of BWIA's financial distress was the long delay in regaining Category 1 status. By one estimate, medical expenses are the primary cause of financial distress for 40 percent of those struggling to hold on to their homes. Boston's Dance Umbrella, New England's major modern dance presenter, closed at the end of April, citing severe financial distress. Farmers are subject to major disruption and families can suffer serious distress and financial loss. This financial distress is creating serious health problems too. He told planners he could get into financial distress if expansion proposals for the business weren't agreed soon. So, in advance of the Budget, the RAC Foundation called on the Chancellor to freeze fuel tax to avoid further financial distress. We collected some money so that when we found instances of real distress over matters other than food we had a fund that we were able to divide up. But it is also required that the shopping be at a level where it impairs your job, or creates serious family problems, or leads to financial distress. Some look embarrassed; their presence here all but announces financial distress at home. As a councillor, I witness at first hand the needless hardship and distress caused to, mainly young, families waiting years to be housed. Both these parasitical forms of life are causing distress and hardship to average, hard-working Bermudians. Meanwhile, the money is rolling in for the relief of distress among the victims of this appalling apocalyptic tragedy. The firm I worked for went through financial distress before lay-offs. On that bus, dignity masks the distress of financial hardship and failing hope. Many of the suicides in the countryside were triggered by the financial distress caused by the low rubber prices. Many have been separated from their families and loved ones for months on end, enduring great personal distress and financial loss. A National Grid spokesman said today that the company did not wish to cause any distress or financial hardship to Mrs Craven. The framers of the New Deal never considered day care as a strategy for alleviating economic distress, however. Synonyms hardship, adversity, tribulation, misfortune, bad luck, ill luck, trouble, calamity 1.3Medicine A state of physical strain, exhaustion, or, in particular, breathing difficulty. they said the baby was in distress Example sentencesExamples Additional and more serious symptoms include eye infections, acute respiratory distress, and pneumonia. Researchers first assumed startles were needed to arouse an infant beginning to experience respiratory distress. As in other causes of acute respiratory distress syndrome, the mortality is high. She was hospitalized with respiratory distress due to mediastinal masses compressing the airway. No significant differences between the various groups were found when the incidence of acute fetal distress was analyzed. 2Law another term for distraint Example sentencesExamples On 22nd July 2003 the father employed bailiffs to levy distress on Ash Waste in respect of £2,857 allegedly owed as rent. W. Toronto changed locks and posted bailiff notice of distress. Payments were not made under the LO and bailiffs were instructed to levy distress but were unsuccessful. Speed had said that ‘when a statute says money ‘shall be levied by distress,’ that is an execution.’ Nothing the bailiff did, in attempting lawfully to levy distress, could have begun to justify a resort to violence by another person present. verbdəˈstresdəˈstrɛs [with object] 1Cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain. I didn't mean to distress you with object and infinitive he was distressed to find that Anna would not talk to him Example sentencesExamples Only two weeks after writing this post, I am still distressed by the news from London. To merely contemplate moving human remains will distress some people. Lt. Col. Patterson said he was distressed at the news. I was distressed by this news; if not at Yale, then where? Mental health counsellors have set up crisis phone lines for people distressed by the shootings. He reported that he was distressed by the news that one of his friends had relayed today. In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country. On Saturday, Hat Hair and I sit in the park and drink beer until his quiet introspection distresses me and I leave. Yeah, it distresses me how easy it is to fail the people who need us. Elizabeth felt that he was distressed because she was right and he had upset her. As a resident of Alastrean House in Aberdeenshire, I am distressed by the recent news that the house is threatened with closure. Michelle was deeply distressed by Adam's news and she felt tears forming quickly in her eyes. But if it distresses you, I'll have Sean reconfigure the link. He had done every possible act to bother and distress her, including his attempt of a confession of love to her. That is not why the story of SIEV-X distresses me. Though these behaviors might distress people, they serve turkey vultures well. He was very distressed and upset when he got home. Many people are distressed at what has happened. The entire situation distresses the people profoundly these days. It might distress people considerably, but no moral judgment can be applied because you have a totally wild encounter. Synonyms cause anguish to, cause suffering to, pain, upset, make miserable, make wretched upsetting, worrying, affecting, painful, traumatic, agonizing, harrowing, tormenting 2Give (furniture, leather, or clothing) simulated marks of age and wear. the manner in which leather jackets are industrially distressed Example sentencesExamples I use anything that is available to create a texture, make a mark, reflect light, distress the surface, etc. The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish. So, I hereby grant you permission to paint that table, to distress it, to weather it, to paint it pink and stencil flowers around the edge if that pleases you. Synonyms age, season, condition, mellow, weather, simulate age in Origin Middle English: from Old French destresce (noun), destrecier (verb), based on Latin distringere ‘stretch apart’.
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