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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)

  1. (Cause of) discomfort.
  2. Serious danger.
  3. (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
  4. (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)

  1. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
  2. (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
  3. To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

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