Definitions from Wiktionary (distress)

▸ noun:  Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
▸ noun:  A cause of such discomfort.
▸ noun:  Serious danger.
▸ noun:  (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
▸ noun:  (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
▸ noun:  (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
▸ verb:  To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
▸ verb:  (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
▸ verb:  To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
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