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We found 53 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word distress: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "distress" is defined. General (31 matching dictionaries) distress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] distress: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] distress: Vocabulary.com [home, info] distress, distress: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] distress: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Distress, distress: Wordnik [home, info] distress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Distress: Wiktionary [home, info] distress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] distress: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info] distress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] distress: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] distress: Dictionary.com [home, info] distress: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] distress: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] distress: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Distress (law), Distress (medicine), Distress (novel), Distress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Distress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] distress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] distress: Rhymezone [home, info] distress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] distress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] Distress: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info] distress: Free Dictionary [home, info] distress: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] distress: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] distress: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] distress: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] distress: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Art (1 matching dictionary) distress: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info] Business (10 matching dictionaries) distress: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info] Distress: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info] distress: Law.com Dictionary [home, info] distress: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info] Distress: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info] distress: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info] DISTRESS: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info] Distress (law), distress: Legal dictionary [home, info] Distress (law): Financial dictionary [home, info] distress: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) distress: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (5 matching dictionaries) Distress: Reactive Attachment Disorder [home, info] Distress: MedFriendly Glossary [home, info] distress: online medical dictionary [home, info] distress: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info] distress: Medical dictionary [home, info] Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries) Distress: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info] DISTRESS: Acronym Finder [home, info] DISTRESS: Masonic Dictionary [home, info] Science (1 matching dictionary) distress: Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary [home, info] Tech (1 matching dictionary) distress: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (distress) ▸ noun:  the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim ("Originally distress was a landloard's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien") ▸ noun:  psychological suffering ("The death of his wife caused him great distress") ▸ noun:  extreme physical pain ("The patient appeared to be in distress") ▸ noun:  a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) ("A ship in distress") ▸ verb:  cause mental pain to ("The news of her child's illness distressed the mother") ▸ Word origin