Definition of distress

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Distress (n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

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Carking :: Carking (a.) Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares..
Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
Indigestible :: Indigestible (a.) Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile..
Disease :: Disease (v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..
Sufficed :: Suffering (a.) Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc..
Pain :: Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart..
Labor :: Labor (n.) Any pang or distress.
Struggle :: Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
Solace :: Solace (v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief..
Tweak :: Tweak (n.) Trouble; distress; tweag.
Distressedness :: Distressedness (n.) A state of being distressed or greatly pained.
Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy..
Ruth :: Ruth (v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.
Thirsty :: Thirsty (n.) Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire..
Cardialgy :: Cardialgy (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion..
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
Taking :: Taking (n.) Agitation; excitement; distress of mind.
Comfortless :: Comfortless (a.) Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.
Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power..
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