Distress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTRESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cause anxiety or suffering to
• cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain
• give (furniture or clothing) simulated marks of age and wear
• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
• cause mental pain to
• upset badly
NOUN:
• extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain
• the state of a ship or aircraft when in danger or difficulty and needing help
• difficulty caused by lack of money
• a state of physical strain, especially difficulty in breathing
• extreme unhappiness
• Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
• That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
• A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
• The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
• The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
• To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
• To compel by pain or suffering.
• To seize for debt; to distrain.
• psychological suffering
• a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
• extreme physical pain
• the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

Words related to DISTRESS

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How to use DISTRESS in a sentence

• It is very certain that when we see people, even in times of distress, treating us so well, we are the more bound to labor for their happiness.
• The march was one of misery and distress, and a number of the wounded died on their march.
• The people in their distress appeal to Aruru to create a rival to Gilgamesh.
• About midnight, as he was in great distress, a spirit suddenly appeared to him and asked what was the cause of his grief.
• It seems this new master was kind to her and felt sympathy for her in her distress.
• The fear, distress, humiliation, anguish of modern jealousy are in the mind of the injured husband.
• In great distress, locking the study-door, I sat down to think.
• In New York the distress was so great that bread riots occurred.
• The family retired to a distant town, and lived there in very great distress.
• How despicable, my dear friend, is that man who never prays to his God but in the time of distress.
• At Rome, there was such distress that no one thought much even of such a disaster.
• Several of my men exhibiting symptoms of distress, I inquired for a village in which we could rest Saturday and Sunday, and at a distance from Chisumpi.
• To the constant political irritation, the potato famine added physical distress beyond description.
• When you have anything to communicate that will distress the heart of the person whom it concerns, be silent, in order that he may hear it from some one else.
• And, stranger still, the result of this appeared to be partly to interest and partly to distress him.
• The rich among you must show compassion toward the poor, and the well-to-do must look after those in distress.
• If we are sick and in distress let us implore God’s healing, and He will answer our prayer.
• The very few who succeeded in penetrating into the city had, to their great distress, to retrace their steps without even beholding His countenance.
• It influences us precisely as the tones of the voice of a person in distress influence us.
• But chemical disorders follow mental disturbances, and the core and essence of his trouble was an intellectual distress.
• They were now both hungry, but in want of some present friend acquainted with the motions of mental distress who could guess this fact and press them to eat.
• I shall accept, for I have a feeling in spite of manners and silken robes that the day is not distant when the distress signals will be flying.
• If the public treasures had been exhausted in magnificence and splendor, this distress would have been accounted for, and in some measure justified.
• The British army, and the inhabitants of Boston, were now in great distress.
• Come Poor distress men women and come to Canada where colored men are free.

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