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单词 distresser
释义

distress /dis-tresˈ/

noun
  1. Extreme pain or suffering, esp mental or emotional
  2. That which causes suffering
  3. Calamity
  4. Misfortune
  5. Acute poverty
  6. Exhaustion
  7. Peril
  8. Difficulty
  9. Compulsion (archaic)
  10. Act of distraining goods (law)
  11. The goods seized
  12. (in a structure) a sign of weakness arising from stress
transitive verb
  1. To afflict with (esp mental or emotional) pain or suffering
  2. To harass
  3. To grieve
  4. To reduce financially, impoverish
  5. To impart an antique appearance to (furniture, leather, etc), age artificially, by knocking, scraping, etc
  6. To distrain (law)
ORIGIN: OFr destresse, from L dīstringere; see distrain

distressedˈ adjective

  1. Suffering mentally or physically
  2. Impoverished
  3. (of furniture, leather, denim, etc) artificially aged

distressˈer noun

distressˈful adjective

distressˈfully adverb

distressˈfulness noun

distressˈing adjective

distressˈingly adverb

distressed area noun

A region of unusually severe unemployment

distress signal noun

A radio signal or flare put out by a ship, etc in distress

in distress

(of a ship or aircraft) in danger, needing help

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