Definition of distress

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Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..

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Supplicator :: Supplication (n.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods..
Pity :: Pity (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
Afflictive :: Afflictive (a.) Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.
Roar :: Roar (v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger..
Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Refuge :: Refuge (n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
Indigestible :: Indigestible (a.) Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile..
Pain :: Pain (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
Darkness :: Darkness (n.) A state of distress or trouble.
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child..
Evil :: Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days..
Entrap :: Entrap (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men..
Presentiment :: Presentiment (n.) Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding..
Distressing :: Distressing (adv.) In a distressing manner.
Distress :: Distress (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.
Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty..
Affliction :: Affliction (n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief..
Distressing :: Distressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distres.
Moan :: Moan (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror..
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