distresse

/D IH1 S T R EH1 S/

noun

1
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
2
A cause of such discomfort.
3
Serious danger.
4
(medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
5
(law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
6
(law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

verb

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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