distress
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Synonyms: mistress, destress, distrest, listless, stress, digress, distrust, wistless, mastress, eustress, fostress
Antonyms: mistress, destress, distrest, listless, stress, digress, distrust, wistless, mastress, eustress, fostress
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Noun
- Physical or emotional [[discomfort]], [[suffering]], or [[alarm]], particularly of a more acute nature.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious [[danger]].
- {{lb|en|medicine|psychology}} An [[aversive]] state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- {{lb|en|legal}} A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- {{lb|en|legal}} The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Verb
- To cause [[strain]] or [[anxiety]] to someone.
- {{lb|en|legal}} To [[retain]] someone’s [[property]] against the [[payment]] of a [[debt]]; to [[distrain]].
- To [[treat]] a new [[object]] to give it an [[appearance]] of [[age]].
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