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Definition distress
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare Middle French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiare, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringere (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).
Noun
distress (countable and uncountable, plural distresses)
- (Cause of) discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Verb
distress (third-person singular simple present distresses, present participle distressing, simple past and past participle distressed)
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